Adorned in bright red robes, the monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery rub metal tubes together as if they were trying to generate fire with sticks. Instead, sound and sand are produced with the scrapes ...

The lobby of the Houston Museum of Natural Science could be a difficult place to find everlasting peace — or any peace at all. Tour groups crowd the corridor; a television touts the upcoming IMAX film ...

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."—The Buddha Buddhism is most widely known ...