Her apartment and all her belongings were destroyed – except for a Buddha statue. LOS ANGELES - One month ago, the Palisades Fire ripped through Heather Burnett's apartment, destroying ...

But the horrific flames miraculously spared one thing-- her Buddha statue. "I believe it's a miracle," Burnett said. "That's my faith." A glimmer of hope standing despite never-ending rubble.

Bodh Gaya (or Buddha Gaya as it is called in Sri Lanka), is the place where the Buddha attained Enlightenment. It was a major ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

The Mahabharat is one of the two major epics in Sanskrit of ancient India It contains over one lakh couplets and is thrice as long as the Bible However only a fraction of the narration actually deals ...

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