You’ve probably heard someone sigh and say, “Well, life is suffering”. The phrase floats through conversations and motivational talks as if it were the Buddha’s final word on existence. It sounds ...

BUDDHISM is one of the world's oldest spiritual traditions. At its heart, Buddhism teaches compassion, mindfulness, wisdom, ...

Wheel of the chariot of the sun, Konark Sun Temple, Odisha. 1250 CE. The temple is designed as a chariot with 24 such wheels. As a symbol, the wheel of dharma is featured in several Indian religions, ...

Pankaj Mishra never figured out how to meditate. “I managed to concentrate on my breathing and block all thoughts from entering my mind for up to two minutes before the dam broke,” he writes. But then ...

SriLanka, May 30 -- Buddhism, as a profound philosophy and worldview expounded by Buddha-who lived in northern India between the mid-6th and mid-4th centuries BCE-has garnered an estimated 500 million ...

Attachment is not love or desire. This means when you are unable to let go of the things. This brings emotional dependence, possessions, rebellious behaviour, and expecting that people and things ...

It is only in the last few pages of An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World that Pankaj Mishra directly addresses the concerns of his title, and here the “world” is defined as the spectacle of ...

Buddhism began around 2,500 years ago. Its founder was a person known to history as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family in the kingdom of Kapilavastu, close to what is now the ...