"Pandhof next to the Dom Church." Photo by Bart van Leeuwen / Flickr (cropped from original). CC BY 2.0. This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It ...

The medieval monastic site of Ghazali was one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in Sudan. A medieval Christian monastery at the site with four cemeteries and hundreds of graves was ...

Hindu monastics Brahmacharini Durga and Sudarshan Sundar discussed their personal paths into Hindu monasticism at a Harvard ...

MINNEAPOLIS (KARE/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Jalue Dorjee, an 18-year-old recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama, is preparing to embark on a significant journey to a monastery in India to ...

The Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St Thaddeus and St Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor.

In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece and came to the US to start Saint Anthony Orthodox Monastery in the Arizona desert.

BHUTAN – Monks and nuns of the Central Monastic Body will soon have access to BuddhaBot Plus, an AI or artificial intelligence-based chatbot designed to answer questions from a Buddhist ...

A garment cut from the tanned hide of a great serpentine beast. Worn loosely wrapped around the torso, it has a freeing effect upon the mind. 32800 ...

Founded in 1132, the Abbey was a centre of monastic work and prayer in the Cistercian tradition until its dissolution by Henry VIII, in 1539. I visit the Abbey ruins most Saturday mornings to ...