Putting a Buddha brand name on everything isn’t enough for Woody Hochswender. He advocates Nichiren Buddhism, one strand among hundreds of Buddhist sects, as the superhighway to inner peace and outer prosperity.

Many teenagers are adapting Buddhist practices in their lives as chanting and meditation become avenues for “de-stressing” and finding personal fulfillment.

Leaders explain increasing appeal in U.S. of Asian religion

TOKYO, AUGUST, 31: They are pacifists who make prayer an important part of their daily lives, but members of Japan's most politically active Buddhist sect say pragmatism comes before religious principle in the country's September 11 general election.

LOS ANGELES - A private university financed by a Buddhist sect will consider selling its 588-acre property in the Santa Monica Mountains to be used as park land, a county supervisor said Thursday.

Twice a day, seven days a week, Mie Yamada sits before an altar in her Tokyo home and reads from the Lotus Sutra, a Buddhist text.

Global Management Group, via PRNewswire, Apr. 18, 2003 (Press Release)

Within the campus' beautiful walls there is roiling about alleged sectarianism and secrecy.

Topeka Capital Journal, Jan. 25, 2003

A dean loses his post, and a popular teacher won't be back.