India, often revered as the land of spiritual awakening, has been a cradle of Buddhism for centuries, preserving its rich ...

A Vietnamese traveler embarked on a journey to Mount Kailash to complete the Kora, a ritual of circling its base, overcoming ...

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Tibetan music used to be unmistakable - think guttural chants of Buddhist monks, and healing bowls and bells set to the rock ...

Blending religious and racial intolerance, writers also described ‘Shinto cults’, ‘Buddhist Tibetan cults’, ‘Hindu cults’, and ‘Voodoo cults ... A popular image of the counterculture is that of young, ...

Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown ... in this monastery in the Himalayas the day before the Tibetan New Year, known as Losar, evoking Mahakala to remove ...

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 ...

Austric (Nishada), Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European (Aryan ... and its older versions are used in the Buddhist canon (Theravada) as well as Ashokan inscriptions. Ardhamagadhi was ...

He is also affiliated with the Linguistic Justice Foundation. Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being ...