It is 15 degrees Celsius outside, and the crisp air carries the faint scent of incense. A short drive through the vibrant ...

I had come to Thailand to heal. Last November, a few days after my 37th birthday, I had a hysterectomy. Just two months earlier, phrases such as “not responding to treatment” were being bandied around ...

It was, and is, essentially a tallying device, known in Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam ... Around the year 1500 we find two major types of "rosaries": a) Prayer chains with fifty beads/pearls ...

Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), the founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, is said to have carved the image as a talisman against misfortune. Work on the temple precincts is believed to have ...

But Buddhism played a major role in a fall of the centre of the Islamic Empire. History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century.

YANGON, Jan 7 — More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6 am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, dancing and Buddhist prayer — drug rehabilitation, Myanmar ...

The region is administered from Shigatse city, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism. Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ...