Enrolling into monkhood may seem like a novel way of making amends, but the practice has become commonplace in Thailand, especially among people who have caused harm in public ways. For Buddhists ...

A family court in Surat on Tuesday passed a stay order on the ‘diksha’ (monkhood) ceremony of a 12-year-old boy after his ...

He is known for his Instagram posts, describing his experiences of transitioning from a stripper to an OnlyFans creator, becoming a bodybuilder, embracing monkhood, and establishing himself as a ...

LUANG: Monk, come here. Hurry up! Sit down… Every person enters the monkhood as clean as a white cloth. But after a while, if they can’t get rid of desires like greed, anger and obsession ...

Vohera’s children embraced monkhood two years ago, and after winding up his auto parts business with annual turnover of over Rs 70 lakh in just four days, the parents took a soul satisfying ...

Leaving behind his life, family and business, a young Jain businessman renounced the world and attained diksha from Vishrutvijayji Maharaj, embracing monkhood on Wednesday. Diksha is a ceremony to ...

Devanshi Sanghvi was initiated to monkhood under the Jain faith in an extravagant ceremony. An Instagram page, run at least in part by her family, documents her initiation in more than 100 photos.

A nine-year-old daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant embraced monkhood in Gujarat on Wednesday, renouncing material comforts. Devanshi, the eldest of the two daughters of Dhanesh and Ami Sanghvi ...

The child is one of the youngest people to have taken “diksha”, a ceremony where new entrants to Jain monkhood take a vow to abandon material possessions. Sanghvi’s parents said she had been ...

The child is one of the youngest people to have taken the "diksha" ceremony to abandon their material possessions and enter the Jain monkhood. — Courtesy: The Times of India This week ...

Bhavesh Bhandari and his wife donated their lifetime earnings of over Rs 200 crore to adopt monkhood. A wealthy Jain couple from Gujarat has donated their life savings of Rs 200 crore to embrace ...