GUJARAT, India (RNS) — In western India, where thousands of monks once worshipped in caves chiseled into the rocky hills, a fight is on to keep Hindu chauvinists from erasing a 2,000-year-old Buddhist ...

Thousands of Hindu devotees began their journey Wednesday for an annual pilgrimage through the high Himalayas in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid heavy security in the Muslim-majority region. The ...

Although the lives of humankind play out on the surface of the Earth, for millennia people have explored what lies beneath. Some had a practical reason for venturing underground—quarrying stone for ...

The custodians of an ancient Hindu religious site in Malaysia are planning to install an escalator as an alternative for those visitors either unable or unwilling to climb the 272 steps leading to its ...

Over a thousand years ago, one of the largest com plexes of rock-cut caves in the world were carved in the village of Elapura in Maharashtra. Between 600 CE and 1000 CE, highly skilled guilds of ...