Shankaracharyas arrive for Mahakumbh, led by Swami Avimukteshwaranand. A grand procession featured thousands of sadhus and ...

"Pandhof next to the Dom Church." Photo by Bart van Leeuwen / Flickr (cropped from original). CC BY 2.0. This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It ...

The Akhada, considered the second-largest among the 13 recognised Hindu monastic orders, became the sixth to formally arrive ...

In the early Middle Ages monastic tithes were a matter not only of economics, but of doctrine, canon law and monastic theory. Their history lies in the borderland between theory and practice and ...