Buddhism is “in,” and has been for about 2,500 years, if only for a few decades in the West. Ecology, too, is “in,” but for only about 30 years, since the first Earth Day, in April 1970. Buddhism is a ...

The Emory Buddhist Club hosts various interdisciplinary events throughout the year, focusing on environmentalism, education and science. Buddhist Club co-President Samali Wijetunga (26C) noted that ...

BEIJING (Reuters) A Buddhist temple has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to attract followers. Longquan temple on the outskirts of Beijing says it has developed a robot monk that ...

In recent years, exchanges between Buddhism and western science have grown “from a trickle to a flood,” says Jamie Hubbard, professor of religion and Yehan Numata Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at Smith ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

How did the Universe arise? There are two main avenues to answer that existential question: science or religion. Cosmological evidence, gleaned from gazing far out into space (and thus back in time), ...

This transcribed and expanded dialogue between Buddhist monk Ricard and astrophysicist Thuan claims few original insights but provides a good general introduction to science-and-religion issues ...

One of the greatest twists in the recent history of nonfiction came at the end of Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004). The book gave physical form to the message-board atheism of the early internet ...

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to attract followers. Longquan temple says it has developed a robot monk that ...