Tweet By Dorje Lama (CHAKRA) Albert Einstein famously dubbed Buddhism ‘the religion of the future’ and several studies show Buddhism to be the fastest growing religion among Westerners all over the world. In addition, the PEW Forum has found that a 65% majority of Americans subscribe to Dharmic practices like yoga, meditation, karma and the number [...]

Tweet Wheel of Dharma or Life, also known as Dharma Chakra is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha’s teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism. A similar symbol is also in used in Jainism and the Dharmic faiths. It is one of the Ashtamangala symbols.The Dharma Chakra [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) Buddhism is playing a key role in China to help prevent the spread of AIDS. Several Buddhist monks have created a plan to promote the awareness of HIV and have also found ways to support people carrying the virus in Xishuangbanna Dai located in the Yunnan province of China. One of the programs [...]

Tweet Budai, pronounced Hotei in Japanese, is a Chinese folkloric deity. His name means “Cloth Sack,”and comes from the bag that he is conventionally depicted as carrying. He is usually identified with (or as an incarnation of) Maitreya Buddha, so much so that the Budai image is one of the main forms in which Maitreya [...]

Tweet Lhabab Duchen is one of the four Buddhism festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Lord Buddha, followed in  Tibetan traditions.  Lhabab Düchen occurs on the 22nd day of the 9th month on a Tibetan calendar. This is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe the descent of Buddha from heaven back to [...]

Tweet A 112-year-old nun who is one of the two oldest currently living in Taiwan, proclaimed that her secret to a long life was simply to practice Buddhism. She is from the central area of Taiwan’s Nantou County. Liu Ching-huan was brought to Taiwan from China’s Sichuan Province, where she was born, when the late [...]

Tweet The Robert H.N. Ho Foundation recently donated $5.2 million to Stanford and Harvard Universities to raise awareness of Buddhism by proving my courses to teach it.  The grants were provided by the foundation which is based in Hong Kong, and whose main focus is to increase Buddhism awareness in the United States. Siddhartha Gautama, first started the religion of Buddhism. [...]

Tweet By Tan Ong (CHAKRA) At a conference on the preservation of cultural relics in the province of Quang Nam, it was announced that the Dong Duong Buddhist College would be renovated to be able to continue to share its beauty with visitors from all around the world. The Buddhist College, which is located in [...]

Tweet By Tan Ong New Delhi, India (CHAKRA)– Hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to protest against the lock down of the Kirti Monastery in Tibet by the Chinese government. The protest too place in Delhi where hundreds of Buddhist monks along with Tibetan activists took part in a peace rally. The message of universal brotherhood, [...]

Tweet By Tan Ong The Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster in 2011 Japan (CHAKRA) — After a four year interval, the Asian Buddhist Film Festival (ABFF) returns and this time around a portion of its proceeds are set to go to Japan earthquake and tsunami victims. Ambassador K. Kesavapany, director of the Institute of Southeast [...]