During a recent excavation in the United Arab Emirates, archeologists unearthed a 1,400-year-old plaster cross. This exciting discovery has helped to prove the long-held theory that the dwellings that ...

MINNEAPOLIS (KARE/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Jalue Dorjee, an 18-year-old recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama, is preparing to embark on a significant journey to a monastery in India to ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Emma Donoghue about her new book, Haven. In it, three Irish monks in the Middle Ages choose to live a life of isolation on a rocky island. Emma Donoghue tends to write ...

BERLIN (AP) — In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rötzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden. Rötzel’s Monk Garden is home ...

Medieval art historians have frequently and inconclusively sought a "monastic mode," a specific way that monastic art differentiates itself from secular religious art of the period. This article ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is an attempt at re-envisioning pre-modern Korean Buddhism by engaging the issue of monastic slaves during the late Koryŏ and early ...

BERLIN — In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rötzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden. Rötzel’s Monk Garden is home to ...