The tooth is a sacred relic housed within the central ... all immaturely clad in white, bearing lotus flowers and frangipani. Sri Lankan Buddhists believe they must complete at least one ...

This sacred ritual aims to purify the being in all ... of concentric circles drawn with chalk powder, grains of rice, and dried beans. Further reading: Himalayan Altitudes At the heart of this ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

A basket of rose garlands on the bank of the Ganges. Devotees, who make annual pilgrimages to the shrines and temples of ...

Devotees offer flowers and flower garlands to Hindu deities such as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth; Ganesha, the remover of ...

And while the rose, poppy, and peace lily are all three historically significant flowers, there is no bloom with as deep a ...

Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom brings the popular anime series Overlord to the big screen. The movie continues where the anime’s fourth season left off. For those unfamiliar with the series ...

Overlord fans, the wait is nearly over, because the Overlord movie—aka Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom—opens in select U.S. theaters this week. This is the first feature film in the popular ...

Pope Francis released a new encyclical Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us”) on Thursday, calling for a renewed understanding of devotion to the Sacred Heart in the modern era and its many pressing ...

Pope Francis has released a new encyclical “Dilexit Nos” (He Loved Us) about the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The fourth encyclical of his pontificate, it follows “Lumen Fidei,” co-written with ...