In exploring Korea for this new installment of the Sacred Art series, I have run into a minor issue ... Korean religion is ...

“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 ...

While Buddha had promoted monasticism and celibacy, Shiva’s story celebrated sexuality. Vishnu balanced the two extreme views ...

O sacred heart of Jesus, mercifully accept the prayer which I now make to you for help in the moment of my death, when at its approach all my senses shall fail me. When, therefore, O kind and ...

The red flower also is the symbol of the Legion’s Poppy Campaign, raising funds to support Veterans and their families in need. The Legion’s lapel Poppy is a sacred symbol of Remembrance and should ...

whether out of malice or out of evil desires.

As such, this mountain is referred to as the 'mother mountain' and is highly sacred to the Balinese. The main symbol of Balinese Hinduism is the Swastika or 'wheel of the sun', an equilateral cross ...