This is FRESH AIR. The publication of Peter Matthiessen's final novel "In Paradise" is coinciding with his obituary. He died Saturday at the age of 86. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of my ...

For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...

SILVER CITY – Nestled inside a walled house, located one block from the Western New Mexico University campus, the Silver City Zen Center has been offering meditation and Buddhism to Grant County ...

New Zen Buddhist center opened this year in Troy as interest grows in mindful meditation Dharma Gate Zen has meditation, yoga, a recovery program based on Buddhism, Japanese sword classes Raised in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thich Nhat Hanh, the ...

Though we've read about it in history books, or have heard about its lifestyle changes, exactly what is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion that has been practiced for more than 2,500 years starting in ...

Zen comes to us from Japan. But its influence extends as far as outer space. That is, if you count the Jedi master Yoda, who taught young Luke Skywalker such Zen-flavored maxims as: "Do or do not.

Interfaith and civic leaders joined the ceremony honoring a new Zen priest’s commitment to service, compassion, and ...