Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Deepa Bharath and Coleen Slevin, The Associated Press Wynn Bruce, a 50-year-old Colorado climate activist and Buddhist, set himself on fire in front of ...

(RNS) — Back in 1965, the renowned Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in which the anti-war activist sought to explain to the civil rights icon ...

DHARMSALA, India - At least three Tibetan Buddhist monks drank gasoline and set themselves ablaze in January, bringing the count of self-immolations to 15 since March 2011. Lobsang Sangay, the prime ...

Drawing on fieldwork between 2007–2013 in Amdo Tibetan regions in northwestern China, this article considers the unprecedented spate of self-immolation-by-fire protests among Tibetans in light of the ...

One common criticism of the topic of self-cultivation is the extent of focus on the "self." The idea of self-cultivation is itself inappropriate because it is essentially self-absorbed and fails to ...

Source: Adobe stock image by WavebreakmediaMicro, licensed by Ravi Chandra Two recent articles by Psychology Today experts caught my attention. Rob Henderson's "Do We Have "True Selves?" focuses on ...

Perfectionism can have its benefits–motivation and setting high standards for your work-life–but it can also have negative side effects, like heightened levels of stress and anxiety. Even worse, ...

In a monastery on the Tibetan plateau, monks swathed in crimson robes chant under silk hangings, in a murky hall heavy with the smell of yak butter. Photos of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the ...