In analysing societal attitudes toward prayer, we often find two distinct perspectives. Some people believe in the efficacy of prayer and ...

In 'My Head for a Tree', Martin Goodman relates the history of the Bishnoi and asks what a world facing climate change can ...

White Sands Buddhist Center offers an escape from the chaos of everyday life. Passing through the entrance gate welcomes ...

White Sands Buddhist Center offers an escape from the chaos of everyday life. Passing through the entrance gate welcomes visitors into a place of calm and peace. Massive trees line the gravel ...

In the Nara Period (710–794), the court gave an important role to what became known as the “Six Nara schools” of Buddhism, as represented most famously by the Kegon (Huayan) sect (with its ...

Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who died after they withheld insulin needed to treat her diabetes because ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire, attachment or craving. As a Buddhist ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

A spat broke out between the Vadakalai and Thenkalai sects of Shrivaishnavites during the annual 'Paarvettai' ritual at Kancheepuram's Varadharaja Perumal temple in Tamil Nadu. The disagreement over ...

The traditional event is to remember the virtues of Shinran, the founder of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sect. Nearby streets were illuminated by about 2-meter-high setsuzo rosoku (snow statue candles), ...

As sectarian tensions rise in Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime, a minority sect fears for its future amid calls for mass slaughter. The feeling is a new one for the Alawites ...