The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human ...

Each slab is 1.5 m tall and together they form what some people think may be the world’s largest book! This photography shows people meditating at the London Buddhist Centre, Bethnal Green.

We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.

The Diamond Sutra is a sacred Mahayana Buddhist text whose teachings date back to the 5th century BC. Part of a series of sutras known as ‘the perfection of wisdom’, the book was translated into ...

US-Canadian author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. The award's judges described her novel The Book of Form and Emptiness as a ...