H anuman is recovering from the blow he got from Indra’s vajrayudha at his home in the forests of Kishkindha, when his ...

Discover Thailand's rich spiritual heritage through its famous Hindu and Buddhist temples, from Bangkok's iconic Wats to ...

You seek Shiva not to get food but to figure out how to experience contentment.” Hindu kings, Buddhist merchants and Jain bankers told stories of a god called Indra, also known as Sakra. Leader of ...

Our denomination had a guru, Guruji, who claimed to personify God himself. Whatever he said and did was regarded as divine. In 1988, when I was 16, he came to the London temple and watched me give ...

The Devadasi tradition is a fascinating and complex part of Hindu culture. This ceremony involves young girls, often between the ages of 5 and 10, who are dedicated to a deity, or god, in a temple.

The painting is one of 14 such works—known as pichwais —in “Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God,” on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art through August 24.

Red flowers, such as plumeria, and those from the screw pine tree are not to be offered to the god Shiva. The Shiva Purana, in fact, explains why the “ketaki,” or screw pine flower, should ...