Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices ...

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 ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often self-inflicted. A drone view shows conservation work at a winepress ...

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 ...

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 ...

Santhara wey dem dey also call sallekhana na practice wey some followers of di Jain religion dey perform. E involve to give up food and water and embrace death. No be really one fundamental ...

The video has gone viral, and Rajani's fans are left teary-eyed upon hearing the painful words of Rajani Jain. Rajani expressed her raw emotions, stating, "I still feel his presence everywhere.