The Greek Buddhist monk Nyanadassana has been a senior monk of the ancient Buddhist Theravada tradition for 37 years in Sri ...

The major world religions emerged between approximately 600 BCE and 611 CE, with Judaism being the first, followed by Christianity and concluding with Islam, ...

Worship and the Allure of Power What if God had no power? Imagine a deity stripped of miracles, unable to shape the world, ...

The God Warriors were biomechanical entities created by the ancient people of Nausicaa's world and led to the Seven Days of Fire, which is an event where the entire world was annihilated by these ...

In Genesis, when Sarah, aged 90, is told by God that she is to birth Abraham’s child, she laughs with bitter disbelief. But after their son Isaac is born, her laughter comes from wonder and ...

The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The heroines of Shilapadikaram and Kundalakesi are daughters of rich merchants.

A superstitious Buddhist devotee wears a massive beehive hairstyle to honour a snake god. Samlee Ritthisen, 53, sports the Marge Simpson-style tower of matted hair as part of a vow she made to the ...

His quest leads him into a conflict between the industrialized Irontown, which seeks to expand by clearing forests, and the spirits of the natural world, including the Deer God, a divine being ...

The sequence ended with Perrin's husband and children attempting to console the "God Warrior" (as she dubbed herself in the fit of rage), as she screamed for the show's camera crew to "get the ...

Unlike Chinese culture, Taghbach culture had long known women warriors who could ride horses ... cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from India ...

and attributed to water deities and gods of wealth. Encompassing different handheld vessels used for water in the monastic context, the kamandalu shows a variety of forms. Often called a kundi or ...