India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...

If you Google it, the name "Matthieu Ricard" pops up. Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been called "the world's happiest man." That's because he participated in a 12-year ...

In the early 800s, the monks on Iona relocated to Ireland to avoid ... but it is remarkably complete for a text that is so old. The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a ...

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"With real faith," the 58-year-old monk with animated green eyes says, "you have freedom. You have love." The monasteries are anything but monolithic. The seaside Vatopediou monastery is rich with ...

The 163-year-old company looks to return to the capital markets 16 years after it had de-listed its equity shares from the Delhi and Calcutta stock exchanges. Advisory Alert: It has come to our ...

The result is a heavenly fragrance that those old monks could only have dreamt of creating. The iris, or giglio, has been the symbol of Florence since the 11th century. Originally it was white ...

Robert Monks' partner Kelly Pearce, 40, was a passenger in the car which ploughed into the garage in Hewas Water, Cornwall, in June 2017. At Truro Crown Court, 39-year-old Monks admitted causing ...