Islam

In a number of regions in Asia, the Buddhist and Islamic worlds intersect. Although they need to live together, sometimes their interaction is not very peaceful. Nevertheless, both groups share common problems, such as environmental degradation, pollution and global warming....

Buddha Is Not an Omnipotent God The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, was a prince of the small city state of Kapilavastu on the border of present-day northern India and Nepal two and a half thousand years ago. After seeing the physical and mental sufferings of his subjects,...

Introduction Buddhists and Muslims have interacted with one another culturally, politically, economically, and sometimes militarily for the last thirteen and a half centuries. Depending on the place, the time, and the individual persons and governments involved, the...

Chapter from Berzin, Alexander. "The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire" from the previous Berzin Archives website

Introduction One of the most important principles in Tibetan Buddhism is dependent arising. Nothing exists or can happen on its own without being related to and relying on other factors. Moreover, everything arises from a complex of many causes and circumstances; nothing...

Both Buddhism and Islam teach the universal values of love, compassion, patience and forgiveness. When, through education, Buddhists and Muslims recognize and appreciate this commonality, then despite their philosophical differences, they have laid the foundation for religious...

Among the many peoples of the world who adopted Islam, several have had a strong Buddhist background, namely the Turks, Afghans, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Malays. Let us look more closely at the spread of Buddhism among the first of these. The Turki Shahis The earliest...

Geography Various schools of Hinayana Buddhism were present in Afghanistan from the earliest times, along the kingdoms that lay on the trade route to Central Asia. The main kingdoms were Gandhara and Bactria. Gandhara included the areas on both the Pakistani Punjab and Afghani...