Sri Lanka is becoming a tourism hotspot for Ayurvedic medicine. Autumn Phillips discusses her experience of yoga, meditation and retreats in her latest column.

When MPs from Bihar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament on Friday to thank him for budget announcements for the ...

She's running the very first Thai Buddhist Temple for female monks, promotes equality between men and women, and believes ...

The earliest historical reference to people dying by suicide at the Sangam or confluence of the Yamuna and Ganga is by ...

If we talk about the number of fatalities and the degree of destruction, three major disasters stand out in Japan. Two are ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

JAIPUR – Over 1200 Buddhist monks from 17 countries, including India, have gathered in Ratnagiri in Jaipur for the first Guru Padmasambhava Chanting Program, which began on January 13 and will ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean-throwing, at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and homes sees people marking ...

Bhutan offers the best of both worlds, from ancient monasteries to modern luxury hotels. Spear's embarked on a time travel to ...