In a vibrant display of cultural heritage, Hanoi’s relic sites of “Thang Long tu tran” (the four guarding temples of Thang ...

KLANG : Dragons, mythical creatures of Chinese lore that symbolise power and revered as protector, are often featured in ...

Where is God?” For our ancient ancestors, the answer was simple: in the rivers, the mountains, the sun, the wind, and the ...

Kailash Parvat, reaching a height of 6,638 meters in the secluded area of Tibet, is far more than merely a mountain. To ...

A sadhu is a religious ascetic or holy person in Hinduism (in some cases Buddhism and Jainism) who has rejected all worldly desires. Bharati was a married man with three children who worked as a clerk ...

In the Nara period (710–94), belief in the serpent as the deity of water was conflated with devotion to Benzaiten, the Buddhist protector deity, sharing many similarities with Saraswati ...

“You know, being the spiritual person I am, it was providential. God’s hedge of protection was on us. I don’t want anyone to come tell us it was luck. Luck had nothing to do with it.

We’ll be introduced to the kami, spiritual deities ... introduction to Buddhism begins with a discussion of its import into Japan and a basic understanding of how temple complexes are structured.

Two weeks ago, she had travelled with her friend to Ratchaburi province, west of Bangkok, where they had taken part in a Buddhist protection ritual at a river, police said. Shortly after ...