More than 2,000 people have taken part in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha, lent by China, to a shrine in the ...

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Nathanael Garrett Novosel, writer of the book "The Meaning of Life,” says: "Who am I?" is a philosophical question about your ...

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The benefits of the ancient Greek philosophy of Epicureanism are touted in an inscription discovered recently at a remote site in Turkey.

Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles ...