It’s Friday and my alarm goes off at 4 a.m. I shower, brush my teeth and I’m out the door into the brisk air. I pick up two friends who are crazy enough to join me on this early morning adventure.

NEW DELHI – The bank executive, the book publisher and the social worker had one thing in common: Their hectic lives in the crowded Indian capital had become so chaotic and stressful, they've turned ...

"The chanting is not invasive and runs parallel to what we practice as Hindus," she said. "It opens a doorway to another stream of happiness into one's life." The practice of repeating a mantra is not ...

Dennis Sage never planned on becoming a Buddhist. He used to consider himself not a particularly religious or philosophical person. When he was introduced to the Nichiren school of Buddhism in 1979, ...

An Indian man holds prayer beads as he chants Buddhist prayers. Some Hindus in India have embraced the practice and gather daily or monthly with others to chant mantras.