Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

Stephanie Elizondo Griest, in her new book "Art Above Everything," spent over a decade asking artists, including ballerina ...

The monks, using long, tapered brass tubes with round ends of different sizes, gather the colored sand and go to the table and make the colorful design by gently tapping on the tubes to release ...

Siributr’s textile works emerge from times of conflict and violence, setting horror and yearning in fabric Three large tapestries open the exhibition. Each hanging on a horizontal pole like torn, ...

In the sprawling width of Indian culture, Naga Sadhus stand as a fascinating enigma. Cloaked in ash, adorned with rudraksha beads, and wielding tridents, the history of these warrior monks has always ...

The remains of the “monk” at the time of the find. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority Monasteries served not only as spiritual centers but also as refuges for pilgrims. In this context, the presence ...

This NFL Hall of Fame spotlight focuses on one of the greatest wide receivers to grace the gridiron—Art Monk. Playing for the Washington Redskins, the New York Jets, and the Philadelphia Eagles ...

In a development that has taken the State bureaucracy by surprise, a senior Karnataka Administrative Services (KAS) officer is set to take voluntary retirement to become a monk. The 49-year-old H ...

The son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who renounced his immense inheritance to pursue an ascetic life as a Buddhist monk in a monastery on the Thai-Myanmar border, has flown to Kuala ...

A Vietnamese Buddhist monk popular for his austerity has courted controversy after his supporters questioned if the government forced the monk to write a letter announcing his renunciation of ...

“So I was searching around for a moniker and I came up with the Monk”. Clancy, McGee says, latched on to the name and “bigged it up, as it were, and the legend of the Monk was born”.

Vietnamese followers of 'barefoot monk' question call for social media silence A Vietnamese man who became a social media sensation as he walked around the country promoting the virtues of an ascetic ...