Some criticism is not bad but when the habit of condemnation and faultfinding becomes a national pastime we need to sound the danger bellsA strange culture of criticism pervades life these days where ...

MICHAEL FISCHMAN recounts the time he experienced a lightness of being and became Shankara on the auspicious night of Maha Shivaratri I began to fall in love with India and with the colourful rituals ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

the rarest of images of King, busting a gut with laughter, eyes squeezed shut – not the noble Christ figure we’re used to now, but a fat, jolly Buddha. And no one knew this side of him better ...

"Mine was meditating," Hook said ... literally showing us the entire thing in advance," Cahn said of the opening images, which were hand drawn by Plains of Yonder. The paintings shown in the ...

The diverse ingredients create a unique, sophisticated flavor unlike any other dish, with an aroma so captivating that it’s said even a meditating Buddha would be tempted to scale a wall to taste it.

Demons like this are normally shown being defeated by the Four Heavenly Kings, but this one holds a lantern to illuminate the prayer hall containing the Buddha images, a striking expression on his ...

“It just seems to be a nexus where a lot of people connect,” said Daniel Choi, who teaches writing at Princeton and has been meditating in front of the Buddha statue since 2015. “It ...

Inside, it showcases a wide range of finest wood sculptures, Buddha images and votive tablets ... a gilded bronze Ayutthaya-style Buddha image meditating on the Airavata elephant from the 15th ...

Monks and nuns in Japanese and Korean Zen Buddhism follow this model by meditating intensively for the seven days leading up to Bodhi Day. As a buddha, Siddhartha began sharing his insights with ...

Vijayawada: Kashmiri youth visited the tallest Dhyana Buddha statue in Amaravathi (Old) on the banks of the Krishna River on Tuesday as part of the 4th Kashmir Youth Exchange Program, organized by ...

Wat Pho not only houses the ashes of King Rama I but also has the most extensive collection of Buddha images in the country ... is known for housing the jasper-made treasured icons of the meditating ...