For decades, the Indian government has encouraged pilgrims to come to one of India’s holiest locations, the ancient city of Bodh Gaya. Now there is an effort to revive the Buddhist university that once flourished there long before universities like Cambridge and Oxford were founded in the West. More →

September 6, 2013

“I am a human being, I’m a Buddhist monk, I am a Westerner,” says this sophisticated photographer, and the Dalai Lama has also asked him to lead one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most important monasteries. More →

June 15, 2012

KIRI OZTURK (reading to her children from a children’s book): Allah made camels with great big humps. Allah made elephants with long, slinky trunks. KIM LAWTON: In a suburb of Istanbul, Kiri and Orhan Ozturk are teaching their kids about … More →

April 6, 2009

This mystical tradition is declining in the Muslim world while attracting new followers in the West. More →

November 8, 2002