Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

Myanmar matters — as a challenge in the battle between democracy and authoritarianism, as a contest for influence between the ...

The walls are lined with vibrant, striking tapestries. Shades of gold, orange and red stand out from the swaths of green and red. Depictions of Buddha and other deities seem to pop out from the cotton ...

As the Dalai Lama has said, reducing all of Buddhism to mindfulness is far too simplistic. 704pp, ₹2962; Mit Pr Deities have an important place in Tibetan Buddhist practice but they evoke ...

The president, just as the Christian Reconstructionists intended, sits at the top of a violent system as the mouthpiece of a silent, abusive God.

Through them, God redeemed the parts of me and my life ... I also came to recognize that my immersion in Buddhist practices was valuable, as opposed to something that counted against me or made ...

the first anthropomorphic representations of the Buddha himself are often considered a result of the Greco-Buddhist interaction. Hercules with a lion-skin was the protector deity of Demetrius I and ...

Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown of skulls, carrying a bowl of blood and the legendary weapon Vajra. The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the ...

27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A statue of Mahakala, a wrathful Buddhist deity, is wheeled out as monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism perform a ritual dance called Cham ...

who continued to support the Buddhist establishment even after falling into poverty. His devotion impressed the gods, who ensured that all those who owed him repaid their loans, thereby restoring ...