LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began a ...

Tibetan ritual dancer Losang Samten – who is also an award-winning visual artist and the spiritual director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (USA) – recently worked with ...

Huge crowds of devotees gathered across India this month to celebrate the Hindu festival Ganesh Chaturthi, marking the birth of the deity Ganesha, the elephant-headed, round-bellied god of prosperity ...

Keri: Ram Navami will be celebrated in Goa with varied cultural performances. Each year, festivities begin on Gudhi Padwa, marking the first day of the Hindu month of Chaitra, with eight days of ...

It is important to remind ourselves that all Hindu festivals and rituals do not have Vedic claims. In fact, most practices in different parts of India are of local origin with no doctrinal basis, ...

A new documentary is turning the spotlight on one of India’s most visually striking yet under-documented cultural practices: the tradition of ritual masks and the communities that continue to create ...

In Sri Lanka, I encountered a culture at once distinct and deeply familiar—where shared histories, rituals, and rhythms ...