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 ...

Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin ...

Hercules with a lion-skin was the protector deity of Demetrius I and “served as an artistic model for Vajrapani, a protector of the Buddha,” as claimed in Religions and the Silk Road, by Foltz. In ...

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 ...

but later Mahayana Buddhism introduced the compassionate ideal of the Bodhisattva. Similarly, in the Jewish Tanakh (Old Testament), God is portrayed as stern, forbidding, and distant, whereas in ...

In the first two seasons, which are available to stream on Netflix, Record of Ragnarok brought in gods including Zeus, Thor, ...

27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A monk belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism wears a ceremonial mask representing the god Mahakala while he makes an entrance for a ritual dance ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...

God is described as male in many religions and referred with masculine imagery, but when asked, many religious types insist that God has no gender.