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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

One of Bernie Glassman’s favorite koans asks: Where do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole? His answer seemed to be: You plunge. Glassman, who died November 4 at age 79, was a Brooklyn-born Jew, ...

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 ...

Facing outward in a circle sitting on zafus, a round cushion, a group of students sit silently as they further their enlightenment with meditation. Every Tuesday, the Zen Devils Student Group, gathers ...

The revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped ...

Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi, a leading figure in Zen Buddhism in America whose legacy was later complicated by allegations of sexual abuse, has died. He was 107. Roshi died Sunday afternoon at ...