In Tibetan Buddhist belief, death is not an instant ending, but the beginning of a mysterious 49-day passage through the bardo, an in-between state between one life and the next. During this journey, ...

An admission that he once led “a fairly degenerate lifestyle” might be surprising and hopeful from a man who believes he is destined to become a Buddha -- an enlightened one who lives in perfect peace ...

THROUGHOUT Asia, some 500 million people—including the Dalai Lama—practice Buddhism. An outgrowth of Hinduism, Buddhism accepts the central Hindu idea of reincarnation: every soul turns on a wheel ...

More than two thousand years ago, in a village in North India, Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under what became known as the Bodhi tree. This multilayered historical ethnography ...