Fasting is the process of not eating or drinking for an extended period. While possibly looked at as starving oneself, ...

(The Conversation) — Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit. It commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama ...

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Maudgalyāyana) adventuring into the Preta realm to rescue his mother, is catalogued in the Chinese Buddhist bibliography with the Indo-Scythian Dharmarakṣa ... in Indic sources and that the sūtra ...

A lesson from Buddhism seems particularly apt in this moment of enemyship: Treat the people you disagree with as mistaken rather than evil. There is a profound optimism at the heart of most ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the process of publishing a new hymnal. It will be entitled Hymns for ...

Navayana was born out of the desire to address this silence. Gail Omvedt’s book Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and ...

The Government of India, in collaboration with the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), is holding the first Asian Buddhist Summit (ABS) in the national capital. The summit themed ‘Role ...

Multi-award-winning Scottish writer and historian William Dalrymple lives near New Delhi in India.

As the land of the Buddha Dhamma, India provides a unique backdrop for exploring the complexities of relic worship and its symbolic implications. Buddhist narratives about relics and images ...

The Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), is set to host the First Asian Buddhist Summit on 5th and 6th November 2024 in New Delhi. Themed ‘Role of ...