In a solemn and spiritually profound ceremony, Brahmachari Suraj embraced full monastic life in the Digambara Jain tradition, ...

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...

presenting Lord Rama not as an incarnation of Vishnu but as a great Jain ascetic who ultimately renounces his kingdom to attain liberation. The adaptation, drawing references from the Padma Purana ...

In India, gnostic concepts took the form of Buddhism and Jainism—Buddhism being more ... For example, early Nikaya Buddhism was highly ascetic, but later Mahayana Buddhism introduced the ...

Multi-religious (they are also a feature of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sufism) it is generally the Christian ... albeit with the emphasis more on the aesthetic than the ascetic. At the same time, ...

Scholar and writer Nadya Williams writes this week that those practices have as their root the asceticism practiced by early Christians, some of whom retreated into nearby deserts to forgo ...

The exposed nun is wrapped with chains. The first archaeological evidence of extreme asceticism practiced by nuns was discovered in Jerusalem. A female skeleton, found wrapped in chains during an ...

After their Christian wedding in Goa, Aadar Jain and Alekha Advani are now gearing up for a Hindu wedding. The celebrations kicked off on Wednesday night with a grand mehendi ceremony, attended by ...

On Thursday, wedding choreographer Rajendra Masterji, a regular at the Kapoor family bashes, shared several inside pictures from Aadar Jain's mehendi, where he posed with top Bollywood stars.

Aadar Jain dated actor Tara Sutaria for a few years before splitting around 2023. Now Aadar Jain is all set to tie the knot with Alekha Advani. Aadar Jain and Alekha Advani celebrated their ...