What is a mandala? Sanskrit, for ''circle,'' a mandala is an image of a palace containing Buddhist iconography that is visualized during meditation or constructed with colored sand, usually by several ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Monks from south India were in Louisville Saturday to celebrate the beauty of impermanence. The Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion hosted the Sacred Arts Tour. It’s ...

Adorned in bright red robes, the monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery rub metal tubes together as if they were trying to generate fire with sticks. Instead, sound and sand are produced with the scrapes ...

A former Mechanicsville restaurant is now a place for East Tennessee Buddhists to meet. To mark its opening, the Lotus Light Contemplative Community Center will host an Aug. 22-26 Festival of Sacred ...

Starting at the birthplace of Buddhism, a writer traces how its teachings spread across Asia, transforming the continent ...

The lobby of the Houston Museum of Natural Science could be a difficult place to find everlasting peace — or any peace at all. Tour groups crowd the corridor; a television touts the upcoming IMAX film ...

The former Vice-Chancellor of Sanskrit University Mallepuram G. Venkatesh on Wednesday said that Karnataka had better contributed to the creation and spread of Buddhist literature as compared to the ...