The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy Shunmyo Masuno, trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Penguin, $20 (224p) ISBN ...

The first instalment of this four-part series looks at some of the early figures who paved the way for marathon runners in ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

These 17th century monks chose to slowly mummify themselves over a decade to achieve enlightenment...all so they could help ...

A monk who allowed illegal Burmese workers to hide more than 20 times at a monastery in Toray, on the border of Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, was arrested in disguise on Friday (June 19).

The alms bowl is a symbol of monks, yet in Sri Lanka artisans are struggling as cheap substitutes flood the market, igniting a debate over Buddhist tradition and quality. The village of Panvila has ...

Barkha Madan quit acting to become a monk Despite all her success, Barkha Madan, in 2012, gave all of it up and decided to become a Buddhist nun. Barkha Madan left her successful career behind after ...

In the spirit of trading away guards, the Kings were predicted to send away Malik Monk this summer. However, this time, the circumstances are a little different.

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Abandoned ‘noisy’ dog saves monk from bear attack A monk in Japan was saved from a bear attack when his adopted dog — which had previously been abandoned for how noisy it was — leapt to his rescue.

Tougen Yoshihara, the abbot of Youkoku Temple in Niigata, was walking his 1-year-old rescue dog, Chico, near the forest on 29 May when a 1.6m-tall bear suddenly appeared. The 45-year-old monk, known ...