Practice UPSC Prelims 2026 History and Culture questions with this daily subject-wise quiz covering static syllabus and ...

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Slemmer was found with a pentagram carved into her chest, and ...

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. One by one, he taps bowed heads with a ...

Just six months earlier and half a world away, he was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox at his home in a ...

In Thailand, where it’s the state-sanctioned religion, practices have proved to be surprisingly mutable. The Prince’s Journey ...

A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an ...

On a serene Saturday evening, the sounds of chanting and prayer filled the air at Chùa Hương Đạo Temple as hundreds of ...

A humanoid robot named Gabi was officially ordained as a Buddhist monk at Seoul's Jogyesa Temple, pledging digital-age vows ...

SEOUL – In front of Bongeunsa, a temple in southern Seoul, at 6pm on a Friday, a line began to form. But it was not for prayer or ritual – it was for an EDM party. The night before, hip-hop DJ Wegun ...

Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In ...

Lack of institutional sympathy over the centuries, especially at the elite level, may explain why it entered the modern era with relatively little gas in the tank. A century ago, many reports alleged ...