On a recent chilly evening, she walked a few steps from her house into the monastery home of the center’s abbot, the ...

The Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully organized a two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony at its Buddha Gaya Centre on ...

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States springs up unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard just off a ...

Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to ...

There are four places in the world that followers of the Buddha’s teachings consider significant: Lumbini in Nepal is the birthplace of the son of a king who became Gautama Buddha; Bodh Gaya in ...

and not only thinking of the Buddha as a man who lived four, five hundred years before, and who has initiated a new way of looking at life." (Claudine Bautze-Pictron) This week in our history we ...

More than 2,000 people have taken part in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha, lent by China, to a shrine in Bangkok ...

When Emperor Ming saw the Buddha in a dream, he sent a mission to India, triggering a chain of events that led to Buddhism’s ...

under the influence of Buddhism. Dr Kumar is Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology at Mumbai’s St Xavier’s College, and she laid out in a brief and ...

An Environmental History of Asia, takes a critical look at the interconnections between the rise of Buddhism and its impact ...

The Tri-Service Tri-Nation Lord Buddha Circuit Bike Expedition, starting in February, will see riders from India, Nepal, and ...