and rejecting sexual desire are Buddhism’s philosophy on health building. Ideologically, Buddhism holds that if people sit still with a peaceful mind, concentrate, and persevere, they can ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human ...

As part of an ongoing academic exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile in India, each year the Five Colleges send 15 students to spend interterm studying Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ...

We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.

“Carrying Buddha into the Streets: Buddhist Socialist Thought in Meiji Japan,” in Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Gereon Kopf, 255–285. Dordrecht: Springer, 2019. “After the ...

Buddhism is largely based on the teachings and philosophy of one man, the Buddha, and his spiritual journey. But tracing a timeline of events for the historical Buddha can be difficult ...

His articles have appeared in the Journal for the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Journal of South Asian Intellectual ...

Jay L. Garfield chairs the Philosophy department and directs Tibetan Studies in India program. He is also visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of philosophy ...