The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

Watching quietly from the side-lines is the Venerable Dhammananda – female, and a Buddhist monk since 2003. Although the Sangha bars women from ordination, there are now around 100 bhikkhunis ...

the monk who leads the foundation. “We’re hoping one day there will be an edition for every Buddhist temple in the country.” The participants — 10 men and 10 women — had been told to ...

buddha's teachings liberated friend Upon publishing the new book outside Japan, he thought about his Italian friend raised by his faithful parents who taught their son that homosexuality was a sin.

The books, which told sensationalized stories about misdeeds of Muslims and the marriage of Muslim men to Buddhist women, “brainwashed monks to be Islamophobic”, said the monk from Kantbalu ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan, on Sunday emphasised the profound historical and cultural connections between the ancient region of Gandhara and Japan, particularly in ...