For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Calling Thailand the Land of Smiles might seem like setting the bar a little high, but after spending three weeks there, I ...

Did you know that the literal meaning of Jataka is ‘birth stories’? A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of Indian literature that mainly con ...

Welcome to Bangkok Noi, home to city's latest 'it-temple', Wat Suwannaram, and its magnificent murals, as featured in The ...

This geometric harmony was just the beginning. The vase's rim is adorned with a fine band of interlocking motifs — wisps of ...

Staff writer Irene Castillo reviews the newest season of “The White Lotus” and criticizes its repetitive narrative.

In ‘Chitra Katha’, twenty-eight Bhaktapur-based artists weave memories and rituals into artworks that celebrate life.

There was the ubiquitous trademark plot device. “White Lotus” is not a “whodunit.” It is a “whoisit.” At the beginning of ...

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, two acclaimed authors who have written about the conflict and its ...

No matter what we do, no matter how we try, life changes—and that was the theme of the dismantling of the sand mandala, by ...

The public fascination with The White Lotus series seems more about immoral excess than enlightenment — but its third season ...