When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three ...

Pinki Haryan, a young woman who once begged on the streets of Himachal Pradesh, overcame extreme poverty with her hard work and dedication and studied tirelessly to realize her dream of becoming a ...

Don David Hewavitharne, who later became the famous Anagarika Dharmapala, was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on ...

On a day in which Gov. Josh Shapiro criticized the “rhetoric of rage,” researchers detailed the use of AI to catalyze anger ...

Cambodia’s elite is taken with Trump, partly thanks to his disregard for democratic processes, but also due to his efforts to ...

They were overjoyed when David was born on the night of September 17, 1864, in the Pettah district of Colombo, where ‘the national religion and culture had fallen to the lowest pitch of degeneration, ...

A planned Buddhist temple headed for construction on a wooded lot in Roanoke County will offer services, meditation and an outdoor plaza for a few minutes of peaceful repose, according to the monk in ...

In 1975, Vietnamese refugees began settling in Northwest Florida. Now they and their families are our doctors, teachers, ...

A cultural center in the U.S. state demonstrates how the authority of Tibet’s spiritual leader has gained new forms of ...

In recent years, the region has also been transformed by the opening of luxurious, design-centric hotels in places where high ...

A stray cat at a Pattaya petrol station has become a local sensation, drawing crowds with a lottery-themed display and social ...

A team of international mountain athletes runs across Japan's Northern Alps following the footsteps of Banryu, a monk known as the 'father of Japanese alpinism.