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The Dalai Lama speaks while wearing a yellow robe. He is surrounded by two man on red robes in a monastery.

The Dalai Lama makes a bid for music chart stardom

Music

The album “Inner World” has been in the making for five years. It contains mantras and Buddhist teachings from the Dalai Lama set to soothing music.

Sonic Buddhism

Arts, Culture & Media

Sonic Buddhism

Arts, Culture & Media

Kongfu Monk

Arts, Culture & Media

Be here now

Arts, Culture & Media
Former White House advisor Steve Bannon briefly practiced Buddhism before returning to Catholicism.

Steve Bannon: A ‘new-age, mystical seeker’ who sees the apocalypse on the horizon

Books

Now that Steve Bannon is out of White House, don’t assume his influence or the impact of his worldview will wane.

Women pray in front of paramilitary policemen at Yonghegong Lama Temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Rooster in Beijing, China.

Religion is alive and kicking in officially atheist China

Books

A variety of religions are thriving in post-Mao China.

Lobzang Jivaka (fourth from left) at Rizong Monastery in Ladakh, northern India, with some of his fellow monks, in 1960.

This Englishman’s search for truth was about the transformation of spirit, and of gender

Culture

Over several years in the 1940s, Michael Dillon underwent a groundbreaking physical transition from female to male through a series of surgical operations. It was just one part of his remarkable story of personal transformation. But all of that was just part of this Englishman’s remarkable story of personal transformation. Michael Dillon was outed by the newspapers after he transitioned from female to male in the 1940s. Dillon’s pioneering journey is a fascinating story about gender, identity and spirituality.

IDP Camp in Sittwe

In Myanmar, refugees from Muslim-Buddhist conflict remain in limbo

Culture

Tens of thousands of people displaced by violence remain stuck in a displacement camp.

In Buddhist Myanmar, there's a view that abortion is wrong because "human life happens only in a blue moon, so we shouldn't waste a life like this."

Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor

Health

Abortion is illegal in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, but many women still seek access. Illegal abortions are a leading cause of maternal death there.