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There’s an old allegory that goes something like this. In hell, the dinner plates are bountiful—packed with fruits and cheeses and spiced meats—but the damned are given obtrusively long spoons, so as ...

From a quick pitstop at ‘Yak Donalds’ to reaching a height of more than 4,000 metres on bikes, Liam Cunningham, PJ Gallagher ...

A Pacific Palisades family celebrated their long-awaited homecoming on Monday, well over a year after the Palisades Fire ...

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A group of six Tibetan Buddhist monks will construct a sand mandala, an art work representing a house of the Buddha of compassion, at Morningside College. The mandala will be constructed during the ...

The Typing Lady & Other Fictions is a dazzling collection of short stories by Ruth Ozeki, who won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction with The Book of Form and Emptiness, and was shortlisted for the ...

The main temple building is an architectural marvel that’ll make you forget you’re in Indiana for a solid minute. Traditional ...

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

Twenty-two Buddhist monks were arrested at Sri Lanka’s international airport on Saturday for allegedly smuggling a record-breaking 242 pounds of marijuana — estimated to be worth $3.4 million — inside ...

Giant sandbags protect the Pā‘ia Mantokuji Soto Zen Mission from erosion on Jan. 26, 2026. HJI / COLLEEN UECHI photo. When ...