The one Buddhist word many people know is karma. Some say it means good things happen to good people and bad to bad. Payback.

Asalha Puja, known also as Dharma Day, commemorates the first sermon by Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha (“enlightened one ...

CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM.; THE EXPERIENCES OF A CONVERTED HINDU--INTERESTING COMPARISONS. Share full article. Aug. 29, 1880. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Uposatha is a day of fasting in Buddhism. It takes place on a full moon, new moon or quarter moon and is a day to refrain from eating or drinking to practice self-control.

Like a lot of Americans, she didn't see Buddhism and Christianity as contrary to one another — they could be complements. I wanted to understand what that could look like.

And, as with the differences by age and education, much of the switching among both men and women is disaffiliation – especially from Christianity or, in Japan, from Buddhism. 3. Other key findings in ...