With the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader, soon to turn 90, the issue of how to identify his successor, tr ...

India halts auction of sacred Buddha relics unearthed at Piprahwa in 1898. Scholars demand repatriation over colonial legacy.

At the site, about half a kilometre from Khilkhet rail gate to the playground before the entrance of Purbachal 300-Foot Road, the railway authorities carried out their eviction campaign claiming that ...

Byung-Chul Han's Burnout Society tells us that the subject of neoliberalism is not repressed but exhausted, not punished but ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

David Oromith (formerly David Johnson) is a Welsh Buddhist contemplative, mindfulness teacher and co-founder of Samadhi.

Draped in traditional maroon and yellow robes, the spiritual leader of Tibetan sat and listened to speeches and chants of ...

In a land (professedly) governed by the teachings of the Gautama Buddha premised on the equality of all human beings, Sinhalese Buddhist children are taught from a very young age that they are the ...

When Khmer Rouge came to power after a bloody civil war in which 600,000 people died, the cities were evacuated; economic ...

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CHAPTER 7 Gertrude’s brother-in-law and sister strongly opposed the marriage because I was only a clerk. But she was ...

Dalit wedding violence in Uttar Pradesh highlights caste tensions during celebrations, leading to attacks and police ...