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The people of Myanmar have often turned to the clergy for aid during natural disasters. But last month’s earthquake was also ...
While the Thai Buddhism depicted in “The White Lotus” is not completely realistic, there are several authentic ways to engage deeply with Buddhism, ranging from offering donations to short meditation ...
My time as an extra on the season 3 set strangely mirrored my two-sided experience as a traveler in Thailand—both as a ...
Get to know the 28 actors and actresses who play the White Lotus guests, employees, and other key characters this season.
Chatting with Patrick Schwarzenegger on an almost-warm Spring Friday, his afternoon sounds a lot like mine–we’re both looking forward to the weekend and getting outside. But while he’s going on a run ...
For some an hour disappears in the blink of an eye, for others it feels like a lifetime. How can our perception be so ...
ranging from offering donations to short meditation retreats to ordination as a monastic. Without donations, Buddhist temples and monastic institutions could not exist. The lay community provides for ...
Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues in a long procession toward the site revered as Siddhartha ...
Compounding Tim’s resolve to die is a fateful conversation he has mid-episode with the monk (Suthichai Yoon) who leads the meditation center Piper wants to join. When Tim asks this Buddhist monk ...
Today, 20 students from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the world’s top universities, are in the country to explore Buddhism, Meditation and GNH. The trip is being ...
Greek Buddhist monk's four decades of meditation practice culminates in new publication examining how meditation can lead to either attachment or liberation This publication represents an ...