Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

offers vegetable-based “shojin ryori” ascetic cuisine. It stands to the left of the entrance to the shrine premises. Used as a Kezo-in temple until the Edo Period (1603-1867), it is now a ...

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 ...

A respected Vietnamese Buddhist monk is becoming an internet sensation ... and is increasingly conquering social networks with his ascetic lifestyle.

The sadhu akharas at the Kumbh Mela are more than spiritual sanctuaries. These camps, led by ascetic monks, have become centres for yogic feats, meditation, and rituals. But how did these akharas come ...

The two are ascetic monks, one eternally punished by the inquisition, the other free to contemplate the truth of the universe. In Elden Ring, we come across a strange, silent figure called Goldmask.

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 ...