Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

Khadim Ali’s recent exhibition weaves mythology and memory into a meditation on the burden of inherited histories ...

Employment at luxury-hotel chain the White Lotus has its perks: You’ll be working in a once-in-a-lifetime locale, so breathtakingly beautiful only the wealthiest white-collar criminals and most ...

Buddhist monks walk in and sit ... resounds hypnotically through the grand temple, drawing to a close with a gentle scattering of lotus flowers. Silk worm cocoons are carefully reeled into thread ...

While most visitors know Colombo, with a metropolitan area population of about four million, for its monumental lotus-shaped tower ... hotels to be as tempting a draw as Sri Lanka’s famous ...

When The White Lotus characters Chelsea ... from Europe to Kathmandu’s Freak Street in 1979. Instead, sandaled flower children floated on marijuana smoke and cheap plane tickets farther east ...

This flower has an intoxicating ... in Van orange for a ginger touch. The purple lotus has a deep symbolic meaning in many cultures, including Buddhist teachings; it represents the inner mystical ...

As the birthplace of major religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism ... Lord Brahma vanquished the demon Vajranash with a lotus flower, and where its petals landed, lakes emerged, one of ...

A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to ...