Buddhist monks protest for autonomy over Bodh Gaya temple, demanding repeal of Bodh Gaya Temple Act since 1949.

A smattering of Buddhist nuns is present ... to many even today—as more plausible and reliable. At Lumbini’s Thousand Buddha Temple, a massive four-story Tibetan structure with 30- to 40 ...

More than 20 monks and officials from 12 countries visited the Lama Temple and the China Tibetology Research Center in ...

From the reignited decades-old dispute over who controls the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya to Prime Minister Modi's recent visit ...

Organized by Andhra Pradesh government, Lumbini festival is held to celebrate the city’s Buddhist past. During the three-day festival held in mid-December all the Buddhist temples in the city ...

On April 8 — it was known as the Vaishakha Poornima Day, according to online sources — about 2,500 years ago, in the Lumbini ...

One stamp locates Lumbini, the Buddha’s birthplace and now in modern Nepal ... gives prominence to two Hindu temples, while the Sri Maha Bodhiya, the most venerated place of Buddhist worship, is in ...

LUMBINI, Nepal--Just next to the Mayadevi temple where Buddha was born more ... A day later, these saffron-robed Buddhist monks, old farmers and housewives were able to see the world again because ...