The rate of committing suicide has increased more than never before in all over the world today, creating a copious calamity. According to psychologists, a death rate around eight lakhs a year has been recorded due to ...

Meditation (bhāvanā), a mind based process in its entirety, is the wholesome development of mind. The true nature of mind can be known only through the development of meditation. Nevertheless, the nature of mind, its ...

Poverty means lacking the basic material requirements for leading a decent life free from hunger, exposure and disease.The basic needs of a monastic provide a useful benchmark: food sufficient to alleviate hunger and ...

Introduction: Vietnam is now a predominantly Mahāyāna Buddhist country but with some influences fromTheravāda Buddhism. There are two Theravāda groups in Vietnam, namely Khmer Theravāda Buddhism (KTB) and Vietnamese Theravāda ...

Buddhism generally mentions about how to live a happy life in the society. Relationships are based on human activities and thinking patterns. Buddha’s teachings mention about human mind and their behavior. When people ...

The terms bījagāma (seeds to be grown) and bhūtagāma (grown seeds) are very significant as those fundamentally talk on the environment. They reflect upon a kind of philosophical teaching and are explained from the ...

From the beginning, many philosophies intended to define the nature of intimate relationship between human and the environment. Among them, a higher recognition haw been given to Buddhism due to its empirical and universally ...

Protecting the environment is a global need indeed today. In the modern society, there is an over competitiveness among people and the desire to have higher progress of life with material gain have affected the existence of ...