A few years ago 65,000 people filled the football stadium in Seattle to hear the Dalai Lama speak about compassion toward others. Now there’s a push to bring that good karma to local corporations.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong describes how compassion is the core principle in all world religions, in the form of the golden rule. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED ...

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious affairs--including *A History of God*, *The Battle for God*, *Holy War*, *Islam*, *Buddha*, and *The Great Transformation*--and two ...

C ompassion is indeed central to every one of the major world religions -- but sometimes you would never know it. Increasingly, religion is associated with violence and intolerance; it seems ...

In reading Karen Armstrong’s definitive history of the origins of the world’s major religions, The Great Transformation, it is clear that they all began during a time of upset and turmoil, violence ...