Most of them are young and modishly dressed. They kneel Oriental-style on a living-room floor in West Hollywood, some 20 strong, facing a homemade altar and rolling Buddhist prayer beads between their ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A low, grounded Buddhist chant to unleash compassion and a long, melodious reading of verses from ...

It’s Friday and my alarm goes off at 4 a.m. I shower, brush my teeth and I’m out the door into the brisk air. I pick up two friends who are crazy enough to join me on this early morning adventure.

Dennis Sage never planned on becoming a Buddhist. He used to consider himself not a particularly religious or philosophical person. When he was introduced to the Nichiren school of Buddhism in 1979, ...