Buddhism is “in,” and has been for about 2,500 years, if only for a few decades in the West. Ecology, too, is “in,” but for only about 30 years, since the first Earth Day, in April 1970. Buddhism is a ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to attract followers. Longquan temple says it has developed a robot monk that ...

A robot named Mindar uses its voice, hand gestures and eye contact to bond with those who want to learn about Buddhism. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and ...

How did the Universe arise? There are two main avenues to answer that existential question: science or religion. Cosmological evidence, gleaned from gazing far out into space (and thus back in time), ...

One of the greatest twists in the recent history of nonfiction came at the end of Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004). The book gave physical form to the message-board atheism of the early internet ...