It is 15 degrees Celsius outside, and the crisp air carries the faint scent of incense. A short drive through the vibrant ...

I had come to Thailand to heal. Last November, a few days after my 37th birthday, I had a hysterectomy. Just two months earlier, phrases such as “not responding to treatment” were being bandied around ...

It was, and is, essentially a tallying device, known in Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam ... Around the year 1500 we find two major types of "rosaries": a) Prayer chains with fifty beads/pearls ...

Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), the founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, is said to have carved the image as a talisman against misfortune. Work on the temple precincts is believed to have ...

But Buddhism played a major role in a fall of the centre of the Islamic Empire. History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century.