His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda, a Himalayan siddha monk and Sanskrit scholar of global repute, will visit the Chicago area this August to guide a series of spiritual events that bring together ...

TAWANG, India (RNS) — The sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, born in 1683, is known for his poems extolling the beauty and uniqueness of the black-necked cranes that live in the remote Tawang Valley ...

The visually poetic, observational nonfiction film “Sing Me a Song” follows a young Bhutanese monk named Peyangki as he personally experiences digital disruption. Constructed more like a coming-of-age ...

HUNTINGTON -- It was a rare opportunity for the crowd that gathered Wednesday evening at Marshall University's Smith Recital Hall to hear the message of peace, fellowship and mutual respect from Swami ...

HUNTINGTON -- Charlotte Pritt has studied a little of everything in the past, but the lessons the Marshall alumna got from a Himalayan monk last year were life-changing. "I felt as though I was on ...

Swami Vidyadhishananda Giri will lecture on the relationship between the mind and the heart at Tamarack Friday at 7:30 p.m. His Holiness is trained in the Vedic tradition dating back to around 1000 ...

A local church and a Himalayan monk are coming together to enlighten the Chippewa Valley. Dr. Santji Dharamananda, a Himalayan monk and holistic ayurvedic chef, will be giving a lecture from 3 to 6 ...

Meditation can literally change the way Buddhist monks see the world, reports a new study. It leads monks to interpret images in a positive way and expert meditators tend to linger on these 'happy' ...

The Monk and The Gun is a story centered around one of the world’s youngest democracies being Bhutan. Known throughout the world for its extraordinary beauty and its emphasis on Gross National ...

MCLEOD GANJ, India — Calling himself a “simple Buddhist monk” who usually didn’t celebrate birthdays, the Dalai Lama marked his 90th on Sunday by praying for peace after China insisted it would have ...

Peyangki, a young Bhutanese monk, overlooks his Himalayan village in the documentary "Sing Me a Song." (Participant Media/Gravitas Ventures) The visually poetic, observational nonfiction film “Sing Me ...

The visually poetic, observational nonfiction film “Sing Me a Song” follows a young Bhutanese monk named Peyangki as he personally experiences digital disruption. Constructed more like a coming-of-age ...