A video of a Buddhist master vomiting has gone viral. Master Huiyen blessed a temple in Taiwan by spinning and spraying holy water over the ground. She span for four minutes straight, though, and ...

FRISCO – When Ringu Tulku Rinpoche was a young child, the Buddhist Master was forced to flee the Chinese cultural revolution in Tibet. He and his family embarked on a perilous two-year journey, one ...

CLATSKANIE, Ore. (RNS) It’s Friday night at Great Vow Zen Monastery. Supper’s over and Noble Silence, the quiet that stretches from bedtime through breakfast, is still two hours away. Two dozen people ...

Taiwan native Lu Sheng-yen, 65, better known as “Guru Master” to the 5 million followers of his True Buddha Society, will be visiting the Southwest Houston area Nov. 15, before traveling to Dallas and ...

TAIPEI, TaiwanTAIPEI, Taiwan — Thousands of Taiwanese continued to mourn the death of Zen Buddhist Master Sheng-yen on Tuesday, as followers prepared for the respected monk’s ashes to be scattered in ...

Smith Buonanno 106 lay in meditative silence on Friday afternoon as a Zen master named Bob, clad in dark blue robes and beige Birkenstocks, entered the auditorium to introduce the small crowd of about ...

Robert Baker Aitken, one of the first American masters of Zen Buddhism and a community activist, died Thursday at Straub Hospital in Honolulu. He was 93. He was the founder, leader and teacher of ...

Thich Nhat Hahn, the Buddhist monk whose mindful focus and activist teachings changed how the world practices Buddhism, died Saturday morning. He was 95. Thich Nhat Hanh died peacefully at exactly ...