Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan fabric painting from the 17th or 18th century depicting a Bardo Cycle deity, representing transitional states between ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already calling a lost “Book of the Dead,” a discovery that folds fresh detail into ...

Have you ever heard of The Tibetan Book Of The Dead? Also known as the Bardo Thodol, this sacred Buddhist text might sound spooky in English, but it’s actually a very important and fascinating piece ...

Ancient Egyptians built burials for the next world with the same seriousness they brought to this one: canopic jars for preserved organs, amulets for protection, ushabti figures for labor in the ...

You’ve seen it in bookstores – the metallic turquoise spine peeking out from the shelf under “Eastern Religions.” Or, perhaps, another of its more understated editions rendered in muted tones. It is ...