Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 feet high from the woods in ...
Thus Buddha liberated women saying “women are equal to men in achieving spiritual enlightenment and their prañña (wisdom) is not a thing to be doubted” and thousands of women entered the bhikkhuni ...
Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit. It commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.