The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Jon Stollenmeyer, 42, grew up in Ohio and studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati. In 2005, he visited a ...

In several of Modi’s answers to searching questions on tricky foreign policy issues, the prime minister falls back on the ...

The Indian prime minister further reinforced that India, the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Buddha, is inherently a ...

Lashkar-e-Taiba's most wanted terrorist, Abu Qatal, was killed in Pakistan on Saturday night. A key operative of the terror ...

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...

Humans are inherently social creatures who require social interaction for their overall well-being. The human mind is a malleable entity susceptible to extraneous influences. ..

The disorientation of assimilation was Lê’s subject, the complicated experience of giving up something you knew, something ...

Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ little known 1974 concert album, Saturnight: Live From Tokyo, will be released in the U.S. in multiple formats for the first time ever, more than 50 years after it was originally ...

As she spoke, Mrs Sherpa prepared Tsajya, a salty Tibetan tea. Its unique flavour was unlike anything I had ever tasted, ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...