Religious Harmony

Introduction His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama emphasizes that religious harmony must be based on education, knowing about each other’s traditions. With thorough knowledge, we can acknowledge the common goals we share, while respecting the differences. In fact, from...

General Assertions Buddhism does not assert creation or a creator. The mental continuums of all sentient beings have no beginning. “Sentient beings” are living beings that act with intention and experience happiness or unhappiness as a result. Like souls in Islam, however, the...

I must mention that I am very happy and it is a great honor to deliver the Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace. As president, he took really decisive, bold steps to create peace in his part of the world, and I was an admirer from a distance. Today I’ve met his widow and I was so...

Being Honest Combined individuals – that’s society; that’s community. But leaders seem to come into society without much concern about moral principles, moral ethics. Society is only concerned about money, power. Then people from that kind of society automatically just...

Some religions believe in one truth and some believe there are several truths. How do we resolve that difference? For example, some people truly believe that their own religion is the ultimate, exclusively true one and that other religions are false. But religion is a...

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,...

Buddhism welcomes the large variety of world religions and is open to sharing and learning from them useful methods to benefit mankind.

There is a long history of Muslims being regarded by the Christian West as the forces of the devil. This began at the end of the eleventh century CE with the Crusades to take the Holy Lands from the Muslims. It continued with the fall of ­­the center of Eastern Orth­odox...