Religion publishers are offering women authors’ fresh interpretations of sacred texts as well as stories from the lives of ...

Last year, the Ti-Ratana Welfare Society organised a trip to Mount Putuo and Mount Jiuhua, two of the four holy Buddhist ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

The most spectacular event was what our guide called the “Cremation of the Century.” More than 170 families had waited, some ...

The vote comes amid a broader push by conservative Christians to infuse more religion into public schools and life.

Through stories, recipes and fascinating anecdotes, a new book delves into the spice’s rich legacy, uncovering its role in ...

It was supposed to stop with Ayodhya. But Kashi, Mathura, Sambhal and a flurry of other mandir-masjid disputes signal a new ...

After having declared Prakrits to be classical, it is redundant to accord the status to the modern-day new Indic languages.

The city of Lhasa, once the heart of Tibetan civilisation and the spiritual seat of the Dalai Lama, has been systematically ...

Apart from the Tripitaka (sacred texts of Buddha) chanting and other events ... which would be “as reverence for the female monk”. Officials informed that Buddhist communities, scholars, spiritual ...