Ne Zha indeed is a deity introduced from ancient Indian religious mythology. His prototype is Nalakūvara, the third son of ...

Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices ...

A fascinating new study shows how these seemingly contradictory practices might share more in common than anyone realized.

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...

God is described as male in many religions and referred with masculine imagery, but when asked, many religious types insist that God has no gender.

The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...

but later Mahayana Buddhism introduced the compassionate ideal of the Bodhisattva. Similarly, in the Jewish Tanakh (Old Testament), God is portrayed as stern, forbidding, and distant, whereas in ...

We have no such “all-perfect” God idea in Buddhism. There is mention of a “creator of all” in sutras, but mostly these ...

The White Lotus actually went there in Sunday’s episode and the Ratliff brothers have locked lips. Fans are reeling from the ...

Many Christians still misunderstand who God is, or worse, misrepresent the nature and mission of God, Rob Sellers says.