(THE CONVERSATION) Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what motherhood means in different religions and cultures. As a scholar of Buddhism and gender, I know how complicated Buddhist ...
More than two thousand years ago, in a village in North India, Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under what became known as the Bodhi tree. This multilayered historical ethnography ...
This blog examines the beliefs around animal reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism, the role pets play in these traditions, and how cultural practices both protect and sometimes exploit animals. By ...
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