(RNS) — In all Zen traditions, meditation is the backbone of the practice. Students sit with a tall spine, hands loosely interlocked and eyes half-closed. At Chosei Zen in Madison, Wisconsin, though, ...

Facing outward in a circle sitting on zafus, a round cushion, a group of students sit silently as they further their enlightenment with meditation. Every Tuesday, the Zen Devils Student Group, gathers ...

Toryo Ito, a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, is bringing ancient mediative practices to professionals all around the world, including staffers at businesses like Meta and Sony.

Nestled between a defunct bike shop and a vacuum store, the Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple is easy to notice and just as easy to miss. The bright yellow Victorian and the adjacent brick building don’t ...

“The lay ordination was a welcoming rite for me to commit myself to the path to discover why I suffer or why other people suffer,” Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester told the Times of London shortly after his ...