"Whatever you may think... It's gone already..." Zeitgeist Films, in association with indie distributor Kino Lorber, have debuted an official US trailer for an indie documentary titled Zen for Nothing ...

The Trúc Lâm Zen Monastery is a serene Buddhist monastery located in Da Lat, Vietnam a highland city renowned for its cool ...

BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A group of firefighting monks was ready to defend a Buddhist monastery being threatened Tuesday by the so-called Willow Fire burning in the rugged central coast mountains south ...

Eight monks protecting the Buddhist center near Big Sur, Calif., are relying not only on training from professional firefighters but also on their Zen practice. By Michael Levenson Eight Buddhist ...

The zen monk expected a pre-dawn knock on his door, but the news on the other side wasn't what he anticipated. At first, Finnian Kelley, a member of the Tassajara Fire Crew, thought he'd missed his ...

Sitting cross-legged on a cushion in a Buddhist monastery, Tim Ream had an unexpected thought that interrupted his typical meditation routine: the idea of writing a novel. Decades of meditation ...

It is appropriate that Tassajara should be almost as difficult to reach as the state of satori. High in the hills of California’s rugged Big Sur country, 160 miles south of San Francisco, Tassajara is ...

The Pine Wind Zen community is in Shamong, N.J. Dusk settles in on the Pine Barrens. Those arriving at the monastery are greeted by monks as they shuffle into the zendo. Service begins with 20 minutes ...

Meido Moore Roshi is the abbot of the Korinji Zen Monastery. Resilience has been a popular topic over the last year for obvious reasons. And the business press is filled with advice from psychologists ...

People stressed out by today’s “always-on” culture have been finding a reprieve at the 1960s birthplace of Western Zen, said Rachel Levin in Sunset. Looking for ...