The sadhu akharas at the Kumbh Mela are more than spiritual sanctuaries. These camps, led by ascetic monks, have become ...

Believers say this grim vision of Elder Paisios, an ascetic monk who died in 1994, was actually a prescient glimpse of the upheaval now gripping this debt-racked country—helping fuel a surge of ...

It’s easy to work up an appetite getting to Dewa Sanzan Jinja, seeing as the shrine stands at the head of a 2,446-step stone stairway on the summit of Mount Hagurosan.

Saint John the Much-Suffering pursued asceticism at the Kiev Caves Lavra, accepting many sorrows for the sake of virginity. The ascetic recalled that from the time of his youth he had suffered much, ...

But despite months of living like “an ascetic monk”, this year Liang was 34 points short of the provincial baseline for getting into any university. “Before I got the result, I had a feeling ...

A mother-son duo from Bengaluru, Karnataka has given up their material wealth to embrace an ascetic life as Jain monks. 30-year-old Sweety and her 11-year-old son Hridhan, recently underwent the ...

Interestingly, Singh does not consider himself a sadhu or a monk, but rather a ‘Bairagi’ (ascetic). ‘Haven’t talked to my family in months’ Abhey Singh also chastised the negative notion ...

Professor Kamakoti, the Director of IIT Madras, recently claimed that cow urine has anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and digestive properties, which helped an ascetic cure his fever ...