A central promise of Buddhism is that change is possible for everyone. While historical figures like the Buddha are inspiring ...

When the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban began taking away freedoms women had enjoyed for 20 years. These ...

A fire severely damaged the second and third floors of the living quarters at a Buddhist temple in San Francisco.

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Jenny had been born in Changi, a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Singapore. There, she and her mother, Daphne, stayed in a ...

One news report said he was living in "two worlds" (a reference to his having two wives, or two realities which occasionally ...

No churches are officially recognized by the Bhutanese government and any attempt to convert people from the state religion ...

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of ...

The Chase star Darragh Ennis, also known as The Menace, has left fans of the ITV quiz show stunned after he shared a 'mind-blowing' fact about the Buddha on social media.

Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...

As someone who has known the author of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ for over 40 years, Robert ...