Senators gave final approval to Senate Bill 11, the school prayer bill, on a 23-7 vote. It now heads to the Texas House for consideration. All Republican senators and three Democrats — Royce West of ...

A recent archaeological dig turned up a mostly complete Buddhist statue dating centuries, possibly during the 1100s or 1200s.

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to the 12 ...

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

Archaeologists just solved a century-old mystery at Cambodia’s Angkor Temple Complex. They unearthed the long-lost torso of a ...

Keri: Archaeologist, Shrikant Ganvir, after studying the varied facets of the architecture of the monolithic laterite cave at ...

Through them, God redeemed the parts of me and my life ... I also came to recognize that my immersion in Buddhist practices was valuable, as opposed to something that counted against me or made ...

The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) – conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24 – surveys more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices along with ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A monk belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism wears a ceremonial mask representing the god Mahakala while he makes an entrance for a ritual dance called Cham ...

Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown of skulls, carrying a bowl of blood and the legendary weapon Vajra. The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the ...

Not being a believer in past Buddhas or future Buddhas, there is only one Buddha I believe in, and have no problem with the term Buddha either, though many synonyms are associated with this great ...