Best known for kung fu, the monks are the custodians of Zen Buddhism in China. The meeting with the pontiff comes a few days after their temple in Henan held a world conference on meditation and its c ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

Recalling the trauma of losing his worldly goods, the novelist and travel writer uses silence as a path to peace amid constant turmoil.