This blog examines the beliefs around animal reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism, the role pets play in these traditions, and how cultural practices both protect and sometimes exploit animals. By ...

Unfortunate destiny -- Introduction -- Unfortunate destiny: animals in a Buddhist cosmos -- Catching sight of the Buddha: -- Faithful animals in the Divyavadana and Avadanasataka -- When animals speak ...

New Delhi: A group of Buddhist monks who walked thousands of miles across the United States with a message of peace and mindfulness arrived in India Monday, accompanied by Aloka, a dog they adopted in ...

REDDING — The Do Ngak Kunphen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace blessed animals from the community on Saturday afternoon. The event featured family activities, a traditional animal ...

We tend to struggle with how to think about dying: What really happens? How will it feel? Is there something beyond? Shamar Rinpoche was officially the 14th Shamarpa, or Red Hat Lama, of Tibet, on a ...

Three years ago a pony named Ina got a new home, but it wasn’t the normal case of a pony being sold and delivered to a new owner as a pet. Ina’s new home was Chenoa Manor, a sanctuary for farm animals ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/shah21828.5 Our ancestors depended upon draft animals for a living. Beasts of burden were the motors of the premodern world. They ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An international cement company Lafarge, winner of a Green Initiative award, is considering quarrying a cave in Malaysia which is the sole home of ...