A devaprasnam will be conducted after temple remnants, including a Shiva Linga, were found on land owned by the Catholic ...

If you want to learn more about Indian Gods – including Shiva, Ganesha and Saraswati – and their Japanese counterparts, you ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

He then uses a steel stamp to mark them with a symbol of the Hindu god they prefer — from Lord Shiva, the powerful Hindu god ...

“The problem was not the representation of the ayahuasca experience in a literal sense,” he explains, “but more about what Lee and Allerton were going to experience at that moment.

At least 30 people died in an early morning stampede at Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest Hindu festival in India, officials said on Wednesday. Vaibhav Krishna, a senior police official, told reporters ...

Here is a look at the sacred Hindu event which is expected to draw more than 400 million visitors over six weeks, making for the largest gathering of humanity in the world. The Kumbh Mela is held ...

It doesn't tick any of the boxes that would define a religion if we apply the Western definition of religion to Hinduism. There is no single holy book, no single god, no concept of blasphemy or a ...

While the new mascot is generally bringing smiles — a saree-clad bespectacled swan holding a book — there are people who are wondering why the vehicle of a Hindu goddess should be made the ...

Drawing from personal experiences, Pillai illustrated the fluid nature of Hindu practices. He described his ancestral temple in Kerala, which houses a fascinating array of deities—from the forest ...