The roots of monastic education in India trace back to ancient religious and philosophical traditions, particularly within Buddhism. From the 5th century BCE, Buddhist monasteries, or viharas, emerged ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body ...

Venerable Lama Chewang Norbu Bhutia is leading a course on Himalayan breathing and stretching techniques at the Wellington ...

A New Era of Spiritual Exploration Today's youth are not only focused on their careers, travel, and the digital landscape but ...

Researchers have documented, analyzed, and measured Buddhist buildings as part of several expeditions and preserved some of the temple complexes as 3D computer models.

The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged? Credit...Illustration By Lydia Ortiz. Animation By Patrick Rafanan. Supported by By Chris Colin On Day 3, I started ...

Bhante Missaka (Mihintale) Kamalasiri, a Sri Lankan scholar monk well known as a guided meditation teacher working in association with the Buddhist retreat centres of the Star of the North and the ...

An in-person mini-retreat, RESPECT, a Buddhist perspective with modern Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Gomlam, will be held Saturday, Feb. 5 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Quad City Botanical Center, 2525 4th Ave., ...

A fusion of Buddhist retreat and science lab: That is how I characterize the garden. As if embodiments of that notion, a few of my longtime teachers — frogs, chipmunks, a diversity of birds — ...

Tending to a garden provides a lifelong education in science and wonder, if you get in the dirt and look closely. A male scarlet tanager on a garden statue’s head. “Look at me, and all that I can ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...