In an attempt to escape the world's anxious hum, one chronically overstimulated writer booked into a silent retreat – no reading, no writing, no eye contact – to spend 10 days turning into his psyche.

Beyond Norbu and Dorji, there are other talented directors in Bhutan’s new wave: Dechen Roder, Tashi Gyeltshen, Karma Takapa, ...

Spanish Bishop José Ignacio Munilla warned about the theories spread by Father Pablo d’Ors that suppose a “crazy ...

Recalling the trauma of losing his worldly goods, the novelist and travel writer uses silence as a path to peace amid ...

In 1952, experimental composer John Cage debuted "4'33," a piece comprised of four minutes and 33 seconds of complete silence ...

The retreats integrate the ethical principles of traditional Buddhist retreats. For example, to enhance your personal gain in this course, the silence of speech, body and mind (i.e., “Noble Silence”) ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire, attachment or craving. As a Buddhist ...

The failure of each of these key individuals to come and answer questions under oath spoke volumes in itself, but their collective silence is deafening. Today's result has been achieved only ...

Today, Donald Trump didn’t mention it at all. “I promise to swiftly end the war in Ukraine … I will have that settlement done within 24 hours.” That was Trump’s unequivocal statement at ...

With this initiative, Gautam Buddha Nagar is set to take a significant leap toward becoming a leading destination for both infrastructure and sports development in India Shivam Verma Updated : Jan 21, ...

A Buddhist monk has been mauled to death by his own pet pit bull, which launched a brutal attack on the man's face. Phra Bandit Bootsen was feeding the one-year-old pup named Jord, when it latched ...

In December, when Archaeological Survey of India’s superintending archaeologist D B Garnayak and his team took up excavations at the 5th-13th Century Buddhist complex in Ratnagiri, in Odisha’s Jajpur ...