Painting of Sujata offering rice to the Buddha.

Buddhism Began with a Good Meal

Buddhism isn't about depriving yourself of worldly pleasures. Andrea Miller explains how a healthy meal helped Siddhartha understand the importance of nourishment — and offers a healthful recipe for cashew pulao.

Mechanical bodhisattva sculpture by Wang Zi-Won.

Awakening the Bodhisattva

Venerable Pannavati, Anne Klein, and Ejo McMullen on the possibilities and challenges of the bodhisattva path. Introduction by Taigen Dan Leighton.

Andrea touching a deer in Nara.

Deer to the Heart

Even if you don't think much about them, they're always present. Andrea Miller reexamines something we all might have missed in the meaning of the quiet, watchful deer.

Sculpture of a Buddha head.

Gautama vs the Buddha

Buddhist scholar Glenn Wallis argues that we should look to the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama―an ordinary person like us.

Breaking the Silence on Sexual Misconduct

Willa Blythe Baker offers both her painful firsthand account of sexual misconduct by a guru and insight for fellow survivors and communities.

About the art in the Summer 2018 issue of Buddhadharma

We take a closer look at the art featured in the Summer 2018 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly.

Lineage Is About More Than Preservation

In this commentary from the Summer 2018 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, Justin von Bujdoss reflects on changing the way we think about lineage.

Boy walking into the light.

The Buddhist Teachings on Rebirth

Moment to moment, lifetime to lifetime — death and rebirth are happening all the time. Nine leading Buddhist teachers explain the concept of rebirth.

Buddha in the sun.

Reincarnation: What do modern research and traditional Buddhist teachings say?

In the current issue of Lion's Roar magazine, we look at academic research on reincarnation at the University of Virginia. How does that research compare to the Buddhist views? We break it down.

Do You Only Live Once? The Evidence for Rebirth

What happens after you die? That used to be just a religious question, but science is starting to weigh in. Sam Littlefair looks at the evidence that you’ve lived before.