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

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

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

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

Asian shares are mixed, with Chinese markets gaining after Wall Street extended its losses on worries over inflation and ...

Seven years later, she and her fellow clergy members are again trying to come between a president whose mass deportation agenda they oppose on moral grounds and the immigrants it has in its crosshairs ...

The city, known as the cultural capital of Japan, is home to numerous Buddhist temples, the Imperial Palace, Shinto shrines, traditional wooden houses and meticulously kept gardens – all make ...

It is also unclear whether the number of Latino Buddhists has grown in recent years. Nonetheless, Sanathavihari walks around the neighborhood in Buddhist monk robes and assures us that people have ...

challenging the traditional view that monks should not be involved at hospitals. Kodai Furutani, 30 — whose unconventional methods of teaching Buddhism include rapping a modern translation of ...

Chinese authorities have recently dealt a blow to the major hub of Tibetan Buddhist learning by expelling more than 1,000 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, according to ...

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 ...