Many places allow tourists to visit with little restrictions. But Bhutan is different. Nestled in the Himalayas, this tiny, land-locked country has implemented a “high-value, low-impact” tourism model ...

Bhikkhu Sanghasena The ongoing debates surrounding the Mahabodhi Temple Management Act, 1949, underscore a deeper issue of ...

The money from the pockets of Indian devotees is overflowing from the donation boxes in temples and spilling onto the travel ...

The ambitious ‘mega city’ plan is a violent appropriation of the homeland and memories of the displaced Lhotshampa people.

While it is too early to make comparisons, there is no denying that the court order has created deep religious division in the state. Karl Marx once stated that religion is the opium of the masses, ...

I saw Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas during my short, 50-minute flight from Kathmandu, Nepal, to Paro, Bhutan.

The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a plea of Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi challenging the Gujarat High Court ...

His new book traces his move into a monastery in 1991, encounters with the Dalai Lama and Leonard Cohen, and what it takes to ...

Theology and Religious Studies at USD provides multidisciplinary training in the exploration of religious meaning. We create opportunities for students to explore religion as a constitutive element of ...

On balance, U.S. adults are more likely to view religion as helpful than as harmful: 44% say religion does more good than harm, while 19% say it does more harm than good. About one-third think it does ...

In the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS), 59% of adults who identify with a religion say that homosexuality should be accepted by society, up a bit from 55% in 2014 and from 46% in 2007. 68 This ...