Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived from the Ashokan period in the 3rd century BC to the Pala period in ...

To understand this contested space, one needs to understand the suppression of Buddhism from a historical perspective. In his essay ‘Revolution and Counter-revolution in Ancient India’, B R Ambedkar ...

(RNS) — Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, stands to have an outsize impact on the vote for his successor. (RNS) — As more than a billion Catholics mourn the death of Pope Francis ...

This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of The White Lotus. It turns out that a spiritual retreat to a resort in Thailand might not be quite as relaxing as it sounds. The third installment of ...

But hold on. Was there really a kidnapping? (The Wikipedia piece about that to which I just linked you may be the longest article on that website I've ever read.) Was there ever really a tiny shack in ...

As the birthplace of Buddhism, India is home to centuries-old monasteries. The arrival of Tibetan refugees in the 1950s led to the creation of many more. Now, the Indian government is working to ...