Buddhist teaching begins with the first talk given by Gautama Shakyamuni, the spiritual leader who lived in India about 500 B.C.E., to five friends who had separated from him when he gave up the life ...

The Buddha's Four Noble Truths offer a timeless framework for understanding and overcoming life's inherent suffering. These truths identify the problem of dissatisfaction, its root in craving, the ...

Between the mid-sixth and mid-fourth centuries B.C., Buddhism was founded in northeastern India and soon spread throughout the Asian subcontinent, influencing cultural and spiritual practices, art, ...

A veteran East Texas educator has resigned after refusing to comply with a new state law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Johnnie Cotton, a longtime band ...

A Ten Commandments poster that hangs in one suburban Dallas teacher’s classroom is surrounded by hot-pink placards featuring tenets from Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. A substitute teacher north of ...

Upset with his violent conquests that killed hundreds of thousands, the Indian king Ashoka embraced Buddhism and treated his subjects humanely. Emperor Ashoka is credited with remaking the Mauyran ...

Following the procedure of the physician of his day inspecting a patient, the Buddha makes four statements concerning the case of man. These are the so-called “Four Noble Truths” which constitute the ...

What you should know about the basics of Buddha’s life and teaching. Buddhism benefits from a superb public image in America, judging by the comments students offered during the eight years I taught a ...