Established in 427 CE, Nalanda University in present-day Bihar, was home to one of the world’s first great universities, ...

This doesn’t imply, however, that a religious search should begin at random. Rather, you should start the way you would in ...

Thich Nhat Hanh published “The Miracle of Mindfulness,” and the advice he shared about living in the present moment still ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

I think that's one of the misconceptions, that since you're the one giving advice, you know everything. But knowing and practicing, they are two different things,’ Haemin Sunim, the celebrity monk and ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: ...

CAMBODIA’S MINISTER FOR INFORMATION, PHEAKTRA NETH, WENT FROM A QUIET PAGODA LIFE TO LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST CYBERBULLYING ...

When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

RJ de Silva’s latest Buddhist book, Dharmashoka, was launched recently. The publisher Dayawansa Jayakody presented the first ...

Madikeri Fort is a popular tourist spot, and as one would have it, it is a peek into the history of the rules and the dynasty ...

The title of the new fellowship grant is itself an important signalling—named after historian Jadunath Sarkar, who was ...