Senior writer Jaime Diaz and senior photographer Dom Furore accompanied Tida for a week-long journey to her native Thailand ...

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 ...

This is the amusing moment Bollywood artists joined a Buddhist festival in India. More than 150 foreign artists from six ...

I think that's one of the misconceptions, that since you're the one giving advice, you know everything. But knowing and practicing, they are two different things,’ Haemin Sunim, the celebrity monk and ...

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and ...

Odisha has a rich Buddhist heritage. Ratnagiri, part of the ‘Diamond Triangle’ of Ratnagiri, Udaygiri, and Lalitgiri, had a ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories ...

Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory may have been born in Eastern Europe, but his band are an American success story. In 2013, between the two volumes of that year’s The Wrong Side Of ...

Recalling the trauma of losing his worldly goods, the novelist and travel writer uses silence as a path to peace amid ...

Although Little Saigon doesn’t have a designated plaza in the traditional sense, there’s an impromptu town square, the parking lot of the Asian Garden Mall, where cultural celebrations and events ...

Skip the fancy restaurants and the chain eateries. Head straight to The LB – Longbranch. Order the fried chicken, settle in, and prepare for a culinary experience that’ll have you planning your next ...

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 ...