"The monks still talk of the days when the entire village used to seek shelter in the jungles the whole night in fear of attacks by the Tigers," Chandakitti Thera says. "The villagers are so poor that ...

KYOTO—Researchers may have uncovered the ruins of one of the largest ancient cafeterias for a Buddhist temple in the Nara ...

Later, the remains of other Buddhist monks of high reputation ... the Chinese character si, meaning temple, stood for an official building that, in ancient China, ranked second only to the ...

In one tale, a monk who had returned from ... Miidera, the temple in Shiga Prefecture where they have been kept, is an ancient institution that was burnt many times during historical turbulences ...

Old Greek Inscription From an Ancient Fortress, Hints at Byzantine Christianity A team of Hebrew University archaeologists ...

Wukong is filled with multiple secrets for you to explore, and the first one that you will come across is the Ancient Guanyin ...

In such a difficult time, Buddhist temples and monks are reaching out to people and healing their hearts. A famous temple in the ancient capital Nara called Todaiji has closed the entrance of the ...

My father and my father’s father were both monks. Yet, the path was not straight. My entire life I have been interested in education. After a few forays in different fields of learning, I realized ...

According to the villagers, the chief monk instructed the bereaved family to pay Rs. 35,000 to the temple’s Dayaka Sabha and provide a receipt before he could officiate at the traditional “Panshukula” ...