At age 84, Venerable Chau Ty continues teaching the sacred art of palm-leaf scripture carving, safeguarding Khmer Buddhist ...

A rascally superhero born from a stone egg, the Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology, appearing in everything from a ...

For a brief period, Leonard Cohen was a practising Buddhist monk, therein the folk musician and poet was given a profound ...

The Golden Road” by historian William Dalrymple is a magnificent achievement. It is informative, stunningly comprehensive, and its stories are lavishly and compelling told. It should help us recognize ...

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Everyone gets heart broken in life sometime or the other. Losing a dream job in the final stages of an interview, being ...

At 12:40 PM today, Elder Most Venerable Thich Tu Thong, a member of the Supreme Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Honorary Advisor to the Executive Council of the Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist ...

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 14 (ANI): Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, Taiwan, and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, have held a fruitful discussion on establishing ...

Any Southeast Asian adventure, whether a shorter trip or a cross-country odyssey, will likely take in some of the region’s 25,000-plus islands. You’ll find plenty of coral-sand bays, seaside bars and ...

The roots of monastic education in India trace back to ancient religious and philosophical traditions, particularly within Buddhism. From the 5th century BCE, Buddhist monasteries, or viharas, emerged ...

Ahead of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature’s joint meeting, publishers shared highlights ...

Post-colonization, South Asia simply wanted to live up to the “standards” the West had left behind, so communities in South Asia let go of parts of their own cultures and did not keep up either with ...