The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment went West. By Mick Brown. Hurst; 400 pages; $34.95 and £25 For decades India has mostly run a current-account deficit, unable to export as ...

Two western scholars, orientalists and spiritually inclined individuals of the past century, Aldous Huxley and Carl Gustav Jung began to have doubts regarding the claims of enlightenment towards ...

Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often portray him sitting alone under the bodhi tree, his body emaciated from fasting. Some depictions show the Buddha’s right hand pointing down, asking the ...