The Bodhi tree provides presence of the Enlightened One. The shade it offers is not only literal but spiritual. Beneath it, ...

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Dalai Lama devotion among young Tibetans represents a lived commitment, often made in secrecy and at great personal cost.

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The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader reaffirmed that he would have a successor after his death, amid doubts about the ...

A disturbing incident has surfaced from Vaishno Dhaba in Uttar Pradesh, where tensions flared after members of a Hindu ...

For Richard Gere, the boundary between acting and real life has been deeply revealing. “As an actor, I construct emotions to ...

Shintō shrines are a familiar presence in every corner of Japan, yet few here are aware of the powerful national organization that oversees them—let alone its historical and ideological ties to ...

For two millennia, Tibet and China have clashed for power. The Dalai Lama's role in Tibet's history and his upcoming 90th ...

It is generally assumed that historians are objective and express ideas outside their cultural influence, owing to academic ...