The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...
Cat Stevens’ ‘Buddha and the Chocolate Box’ became his fourth consecutive Top 3 LP on both sides of the Atlantic. That last-named album had marked a departure for the London-born singer ...
Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...
What if the gods actually ‘eat’ the food you offer them? Not just symbolically — but physically, as though the divine hand ...
Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...
In the first two seasons, which are available to stream on Netflix, Record of Ragnarok brought in gods including Zeus, Thor, ...
While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOUNG RUESSEI, CAMBODIA — On the grounds of a Buddhist temple, a crowd gathered in ...
While Douthat and I disagree on many things, we can both affirm that there is something "more" to our lives and the universe than generally meets the eye or that can be explained purely by empirical ...
Every time the controversial former UFC middleweight champion opens his mouth, you can say with near certainty that it will ...
How do we rewrite the prelude to the future with creativity? At this moment, we begin to see: sustainability is not a solemn ...
A recent archaeological dig turned up a mostly complete Buddhist statue dating centuries, possibly during the 1100s or 1200s.