Buddhism is practiced in various parts of the world and the Ancient Greeks played a significant role in the mission of ...

Yet it’s a busy world — true now, true 700 years ago when a monkish aristocrat, or aristocratic monk ... took Buddhist vows, shaved their heads, donned drab monkish or nunnish robes and ...

Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

TOKUSHIMA—David Moreton has for years served as a messenger of the cultural appeal of a Buddhist ... a white robe worn by Alfred Bohner (1894-1958), one of the first non-Japanese who embarked ...

His new book traces his move into a monastery in 1991, encounters with the Dalai Lama and Leonard Cohen, and what it takes to ...

For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road ... Central Asian merchants with long noses and floppy hats, wizened Indian monks in white robes, Chinese peasants working the land.

The fourth edition of Samvad – the Global Hindu-Buddhist Initiative ... Korea, and Japan seems to be an exception to the usual phenomenon. Princes spurned the prospects of royalty, donned the yellow ...

Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound ...