The orange-gold light of the setting sun filtered through leafy tree branches into a second-floor apartment in Ravenswood one summer evening, where a dozen men and women had gathered for lessons with ...

Patricia Bennage arrived in Japan in the mid 1960s as a classically trained dancer. She wanted to learn Japanese culture and its Noh Theater, which includes ceremonial dance. When her graduate studies ...

Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi, a leading figure in Zen Buddhism in America whose legacy was later complicated by allegations of sexual abuse, has died. He was 107. Roshi died Sunday afternoon at ...

In the centuries since the death of its founder in 483 B.C., Buddhism has had little direct impact on the Christian West. Today, however, a Buddhist boomlet is under way in the U.S. Increasing numbers ...

After downing some unmentionables one night in college, a friend had a vision involving life force, a river and thrones. The way he explained it, the experience beat the hell out of Philosophy of ...

Zen comes to us from Japan. But its influence extends as far as outer space. That is, if you count the Jedi master Yoda, who taught young Luke Skywalker such Zen-flavored maxims as: "Do or do not.

The modern Episcopal Church always strives to stay ahead of the latest fads. In recent years it has dealt with its first openly homosexual bishop, its first Islamic priest, and its first Druid priest.

A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

Brad Warner, the Zen teacher and punk rock bass guitarist who is speaking in Belfast this week, has built himself a bit of a reputation as the enfant terrible of Buddhism. A shock wave ran through the ...