During my most severe manic episode, I became fixated on questions of spirituality and religion. I was a frequent visitor to ...

Religion doesn’t need God. For example, Buddhism is an established religion that doesn’t accept a belief in a theistic understanding of God. Non-theists exist within other religions too ...

Buddhism is the most common religious identity in China ... Allah or Tianzhu (the word Chinese Catholics use for God), according to the CFPS survey. Only 16% of Chinese adults believe exclusively in ...

or Guan Gong (关公), commonly venerated as the god of wealth, as examples of folk religion. In addition, scholars have noted that practitioners of folk religion sometimes refer to all forms of folk ...

The four patches show the Four Heavenly Kings, protector deities in Buddhism who guard against evil forces in the four ...

When I was growing up in India, gods and religions seemed to be everywhere. But I needed to find faith my own way.

Lao Buddhism is closely connected to spirits; and Sri Lankan religious practice is integrated with Hindu gods and demons. These distinctions only begin to reveal a rich diversity of traditions ...

There is no Ishwara or God in Buddhism (or Jainism). Buddhism is a non-theistic religion, meaning it doesn't recognise a creator god or a deity who intervenes in the world. Instead, it focuses on ...

This cleansing consecrated the Buddha-to-be as holy, signaling that even the gods recognized him as ... which frowned upon Buddhist religious practices and ended in 1910. Buddhist reformers ...