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A momentous discovery was made by a group of farmers in the Shaanxi province, China, on 29 March 1974. Yang Zhifa, his five ...

Themes: Buddhism; the life of the Buddha; the festivals of Wesak and Parinirvana Day; the Eightfold Path. Summary: this assembly is suitable at about the time of the festivals of Wesak (April or ...

Is there a difference between the path of Buddha and the way of Shiva? Sadhguru answers this profound question, revealing how ...

Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nagpur today is drawing significant attention, as it marks an emotional and historic ...

Many have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, ...

For architect Shereen Amendra, the fascination of the Mahathupa (the original Pali name which she prefers) began when she was a teenager. Her mother Doreen Alles’s copy of the Mahavamsa much-thumbed ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church's most celebrated ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

When a father becomes a gambler and his obligation to his family takes the secondary place in his mind, he is no longer a man ...