Summary of the approaches of theistic and nontheistic religions toward teaching their followers ethics as the foundation for taking social responsibility for the common good and environmental protection.

As Sogdia and Bactria were major areas to which the Arabs first spread Islam in Central Asia, let us look more closely at the religious background of their people. This will help us understand their initial response to the Muslim faith. Zoroastrian Relations with Buddhism The...

With the hope of defraying some common misunderstandings and exploring resonances between Islam and Buddhism, “Inquiring Mind” set up a conversation between Dr. Alexander Berzin and Dr. Snjezana Akpinar, a Buddhist practitioner with an academic background in Islam.

Analysis of the Word Lojong The term “mind training” is the usual translation of the Tibetan term lojong. When we examine the meaning of lojong more carefully, we discover that the first syllable lo means “attitude.” This implies that what we are dealing with...

Furthermore, at that time, during that period, in the great city of Raja-griha, there dwelt the bodhisattva, the great being Ruchira-ketu, who had venerated previous buddhas, cultivated roots of virtue and rendered service to many hundreds of thousands of millions of buddhas....

The Mongolian form of Buddhism derived from the Tibetan tradition, but has several significant differences and features added.

A summary of the main assertions unique to the Gelug tradition, concerning cognition theory, the Indian Buddhist tenet systems, karma, the three times, and many more.

We have seen that a revealing form of speech is: A pleasing or unpleasing sound that, as a platform for words, is communicative of a sentient being and that has as its cause the great elements of the lips and tongue (parts of the body-sensors) that are appropriated by a...

We have seen that a revealing form of the body is a visible, momentary shape of the body with which one implements a method for causing a karmic action of the body to take place. A revealing form of speech (ngag-gi rig-byed-gi gzugs, Skt. vāgvijñaptirūpa) is a type of...

H.H. the Dalai Lama’s emphasis on the oneness of humanity, the important of bodhichitta and voidness, and his four great commitments are especially important for the 21st century.