In about 15 miles, the messenger climbed out of the shadows to the hillside hamlet of Tengboche, a holy crossroads between Nepal’s ... and devotees spin prayer wheels that hold scrolls of ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues in a long procession toward the site revered as Siddhartha ...

The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje ...

DETROIT, April 8 (Reuters) - Western intelligence agencies warned on Tuesday of an increasing threat from Beijing's security services to use malicious mobile phone applications to surveil ...

the actress said she had mixed emotions when she got her hands on the scripts for Episodes 9 and 10. “Can I swear?” she responded when asked for her first thoughts. “Holy s–t. And tears ...

Researchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and adaptability.

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the most important, complex, and profound days of celebration in the Catholic Church. Holy Thursday celebrates the ...

Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine blessing, who called himself the living water, and who, with water, established Baptism for our sake as the ...

NEW YORK, April 17, 2017 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on ...

Beginning with the angular scripts of a thousand years ago and evolving into abstraction in the 20th century, the Arabic written word has been used to create some of the most beautiful and ...

Orthodox Christian 1 Jain New Year Jains celebrate New Year after Diwali, which takes place at the end of Ashwina. Jain 3 Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus A Roman Catholic feast day that honors the ...