Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

Asia Society Museum's Buddhist Art of Myanmar, which explores Buddhist narratives through approximately 70 works spanning the fifth through the early twentieth centuries, opened earlier this month in ...

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According to Buddhist tradition ... ultimately attaining a state of deep inner peace known as nirvana—eternal tranquility and liberation from suffering. Unlike Hinduism, which encourages ...

Shortly after the Buddha attained Nirvana, he was met by two merchants who fed him but admitted they could not practise the rigorous meditation techniques. The Buddha, therefore, advised them to ...

In 1330-1331 during the Yuan Dynasty, a large-scale bronze image of the Buddha attaining Nirvana was cast, and from that time on, the temple was popularly called the Temple of the Reclining Buddha.