The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese scroll from the late 12th century that graphically depicts ...

A wild elephant climbed a set of stairs and wandered over to Buddhist monks chanting their morning prayers in a temple cave. The jumbo ascended the steps that led to Wat Tham Sarika temple at the top, ...

A monk belonging to the same temple told BBC Marathi that he had seen the animal attacking Mr Walke when he visited his meditation spot to give him food on Wednesday morning. He said he went away ...

Zhi Xiang, 56, is a Shanghai-based Buddhist monk at the Bao'en Temple, and has been saving animals since the early 1990s.

Federal officials recently rejected an activist proposal that would have restricted access to certain animal models that play ...