Category: Arts & Culture

How “Orange Is the New Black” taught actor Jessica Pimentel the danger of attachment

Jessica Pimentel on what she’s learned from seeing life through a Buddhist lens and the eyes of her character, Maria, on Orange Is the New Black.

Richard Gere talks about his many years of Buddhist practice, his devotion to his teacher the Dalai Lama, and his work for Tibetan freedom.

Or is it just a Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud formation?

Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Senior Dharma Teacher of San Francisco Zen Center, has died.

Brother Phap Hai shares personal insights into Garry Shandling's Buddhist practice.

It won’t be long before you can slip on a headset and enter a new dharma realm. But, says Vincent Horn, we should watch our step.

Sayadaw U Pandita was a prolific Buddhist teacher who had an exceptional influence on American Buddhism.

Sandy Boucher gives a candid account of the tangles and revelations in chronicling the life of teacher Ruth Denison, who died in February 2015.

George Saunders's 2013 convocation address about kindness rang so universally true that it went viral, and then became a book.

Find out how Benedict Cumberbatch found Buddhism and what it means to him today, in the new issue of Lion's Roar.