The "Hip Buddhism" trend has yet to translate into an increase in the number of people entering monastic life. This is a surprising development, given that Buddhism has recently become a new cultural ...

A residential education scholarship project for samaneris/bhikkhunis/silmathas has been launched to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and ...

Katherine Scahill, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music, has always been interested in the overlap of music and mindfulness. She grew up playing the violin, and, as an undergraduate at ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

A teacher of the Government Primary School in Pasmarapenta, a tribal village near Pernambut town in Vellore, is driving his new share auto rickshaw to pick up primary class students from nearby tribal ...

"Not just bhikkhuni sangh, even bhikkhu sangh had disappeared from India. While the bhikkhu sangh has managed to revive itself, the bhikkhus are now saying that the women's order cannot be revived," ...

On the question of abortion, the overarching answer for many religious communities is that there is no single answer. In Islam, while schools of thought establish different thresholds for when and why ...

While the pandemic has robbed us of many things, it also has given us a gift — more peace, more quiet and less man-made noise to clog our ears like so much debris strewn along the freeways of big ...

The clergy prohibits female ordination. That does not stop the Nirotharam Monastery in Chiang Mai from being the country's biggest community of female monks and novices -- and with strong support from ...