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 ...

Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, received Father Shi Yongxin, the senior monk of ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

In the Western culture, snakes are often associated with temptation, sin and evil forces, famously symbolized by the serpent in the Bible who lured Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. It is also ...

A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 ...

Auspicious dishes include Maine lobster with ginger and onion called Long Ha Gin Sui, and a vegetarian dish eaten to cleanse the system for the new year called Xin Nian Fat Choi Jai.

The visitor, a Buddhist monk, knocked on the door of the last and only inhabited ... “From that time on, the Chinese love to have the colour red. They paint everything red,” said Tony Wong, president ...

Longtime Islamorada resident Karin Wolfe is preparing to welcome some very special guests. At the end of this month, Wolfe will host three of seven touring Tibetan monks who will be passing through ...

The simplified Chinese caption read: "When disaster strikes ... while the US Geological Survey reported it as 7.1. "Tibetan Buddhist monks clear debris while searching for survivors amid a collapsed ...

A Buddhist monk has been mauled to death by his own pet pit bull, which launched a brutal attack on the man's face. Phra Bandit Bootsen was feeding the one-year-old pup named Jord, when it latched ...

There are some studies that suggest that the renowned Chinese Buddhist monk and traveller, Hiuen Tsang, who visited Odisha, during 638-639 AD, might have visited Ratnagiri. The new excavations would ...