This 19th-century Indian queen is an exciting figure. Raised to fight and to ride, Lakshmibai lost her mother at the age of four. She was married to the leader of Jhansi province in northern India. After the death of their own son, she and her husband adopted a young man called Anand...
He became a Buddhist monk three times during his life; once at the age of 12, later in 1899, and again in 1903. He studied in Japan and traveled to many Buddhist countries including India, and Java. He was involved in revolutionary activity against the Qing Dynasty writing articles and ...