She's running the very first Thai Buddhist Temple for female monks, promotes equality between men and women, and believes ...

BHUTAN – Monks and nuns of the Central Monastic Body will soon have access to BuddhaBot Plus, an AI or artificial intelligence-based chatbot designed to answer questions from a Buddhist ...

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

Today will see extensive cloud for most albeit some hazy sunny spells are likely to develop in places during the afternoon. A chance of the odd light shower near the coasts. Chilly with gentle ...

“The hope is they will come back here. All the monks want to come back. There is more than a chance that this will happen.” Mount Melleray staff member Christina O’Flynn’s tone was ...

Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth. Buddhism teaches that Nirvana is reached when all want and suffering is gone. The Eightfold Path is often represented as a ...

“Monasteries don’t make much sense without monks,” says Fr Richard Purcell, abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey in west Waterford. The cleric is in reflective mood as the Cistercian ...

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 ...

Unlike their male counterparts, who can remain Digambara (naked), female Naga Sadhus wear a single piece of unstitched saffron cloth, known as “Ganti,” and are required to apply a Tilak on ...

Sex' shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female," Trump's executive order declares. "'Female' means a person belonging, at conception ...

Claims spread that definitions of "male" and "female" included in a January 2025 executive order that asserted sex is established at conception accidentally classified all Americans as women.