His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935…
Biography
Kumarajiva (AD 344-413) translated many Buddhist Scriptures into Chinese.
Kumarajiva (AD 344-413). His translations are still held in high regard by modern scholars and without him some of the great Mahayana texts may not have been preserved…
Pat Wilkinson one of the earliest Western Buddhist nuns
Pat Wilkinson went to Thailand to be a Buddhist nun (meichee) maybe fifty or sixty years ago…
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (Servant of the Buddha) became a monk in 1926…
Diana St Ruth
Diana St Ruth has been a practising Buddhist since the early 1960s. A director of the Buddhist Publishing Group since 1983, she lived in a Buddhist Community in Devon from 1989-1993 and is the editor of Buddhism Now. She is… Read More ›
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand in 1967…
Trevor Leggett
Trevor Leggett (1914-2000) lived for a considerable time in Japan. He was the first foreigner to obtain the Sixth Dan (senior teachers degree) in judo from Kodokan and has written several well-known books on the subject. He has also written… Read More ›
The path of mindfulness is the path of no preferences
.. after that I contemplated my attitude; I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity any more.
Buddhism now 