While Buddha had promoted monasticism and celibacy, Shiva’s story celebrated sexuality. Vishnu balanced the two extreme views ...

A snoob is that terrible, dangling silence in an interaction, an awkward pause so uncomfortable it feels like you’ve been ...

They consider any recognition of the Dalai Lama—a Mandela-level icon, a symbol of Tibet’s will to survive, and also (by the ...

We all know who matters in life. Family. Friends. These are the people we write about, worry about, complain about. And we ...

This Bodhisattva belongs to the corpus of Buddhist schist statues from the ancient territory of Gandhara, which lay north of the Indus and south of Pamirs. This region, also known as the ...

Yet, the ancient practice of mantra chanting provides a timeless path to inner peace and positivity. Rooted in centuries of ...

“Like a little meditation?” I venture. “Exactly,” he replies, emphatically, validating our shared moment of mindfulness.

Located around 50km south-east of the capital Leh, Takthok is the only monastery in Ladakh that belongs to the oldest school ...

In it, the mother of Jesus is portrayed as the Kannon bodhisattva, a Buddhist deity. Tetsujo Suda, chief monk of Tenyuji, conceived of the artwork featuring not only his own faith but also ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered about a dozen sandstone statues in Angkor, an archaeological site in Cambodia which ...

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...