His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda, a Himalayan siddha monk and Sanskrit scholar of global repute, will visit the Chicago area this August to guide a series of spiritual events that bring together ...

TAWANG, India (RNS) — The sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, born in 1683, is known for his poems extolling the beauty and uniqueness of the black-necked cranes that live in the remote Tawang Valley ...

HUNTINGTON -- It was a rare opportunity for the crowd that gathered Wednesday evening at Marshall University's Smith Recital Hall to hear the message of peace, fellowship and mutual respect from Swami ...

The visually poetic, observational nonfiction film “Sing Me a Song” follows a young Bhutanese monk named Peyangki as he personally experiences digital disruption. Constructed more like a coming-of-age ...

Swami Vidyadhishananda Giri will lecture on the relationship between the mind and the heart at Tamarack Friday at 7:30 p.m. His Holiness is trained in the Vedic tradition dating back to around 1000 ...

HUNTINGTON -- Charlotte Pritt has studied a little of everything in the past, but the lessons the Marshall alumna got from a Himalayan monk last year were life-changing. "I felt as though I was on ...

A local church and a Himalayan monk are coming together to enlighten the Chippewa Valley. Dr. Santji Dharamananda, a Himalayan monk and holistic ayurvedic chef, will be giving a lecture from 3 to 6 ...

Meditation can literally change the way Buddhist monks see the world, reports a new study. It leads monks to interpret images in a positive way and expert meditators tend to linger on these 'happy' ...

MCLEOD GANJ, India — Calling himself a “simple Buddhist monk” who usually didn’t celebrate birthdays, the Dalai Lama marked his 90th on Sunday by praying for peace after China insisted it would have ...

The Monk and The Gun is a story centered around one of the world’s youngest democracies being Bhutan. Known throughout the world for its extraordinary beauty and its emphasis on Gross National ...

The visually poetic, observational nonfiction film “Sing Me a Song” follows a young Bhutanese monk named Peyangki as he personally experiences digital disruption. Constructed more like a coming-of-age ...