Specimens of twisted cotton thread found from Indus Valley sites in the early twentieth century were initially used as evidence to date the charkha to the third millennium BCE.

The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

The Dharma Wheel (dharmachakra) represents the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path which guides Buddhists in all aspects of life including family life. In Taiwan's first same-sex Buddhist wedding ...

In recent years, the concept of wellness travel has grown significantly, with more individuals seeking experiences that ...

“Skeptical Buddhism as Provenance and Project,” in Buddhism and Skepticism: Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Oren Hanner, 161–177. Hamburg Buddhist Studies, vol. 11, ...

Aginskoye is a small settlement in the south of Transbaikal Region (nearly 5,000 kilometers east of Moscow), overlooking Lake Baikal to the west and Mongolia to the south. If you ask locals ...

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

A tour of Ladakh in India’s Himalayas takes in a Unesco World Heritage monastery and a festival where Buddhist monks dance in ...

Buddhist monarchs continue to reign in Thailand, Cambodia, and Bhutan (and Buddhism has influenced the more Shinto-oriented imperial tradition of the Japanese monarchy). Moreover, the metaphysics ...

Thailand is a country in shock: three days ago, 20 children and three teachers were killed when their bus was engulfed in flames. It was one of the South East Asian country’s worst road accidents, and ...

Wheel of Fortune is back and better than ever? Maybe not. According to some fans of the game show, they are not fond of some of the changes to the show's set. Ryan Seacrest made his debut on Wheel ...