The public fascination with The White Lotus series seems more about immoral excess than enlightenment — but its third season ...

Located in Dhamnar, in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, this site features 51 rock-cut caves containing Buddhist and Hindu structures, including stupas, chaityas, and a temple complex ...

Buddhist monks protest for control of Bodh Gaya temple, demanding repeal of 1949 Act, sparking religious and political debate ...

In Jesus’ time, Buddhism was already five hundred years old and had spread from India in all directions within and outside the Indian sub continent. The overland route westward was through Afghanistan ...

Protesting Buddhist monks under All India Buddhist Forum have submitted a memorandum to the Bihar government for the repeal of Bodh Gaya Temple Act, 1949 that gives control of the site to Hindus ...

This was a richly diverse environment: all sorts of religious ideas and practices were circulating, many of them ascetic in nature. Lopez guides us through the emergence of Buddhism from this milieu, ...

Japan has experienced the largest losses from Buddhism due to religious switching: 26% of all Japanese adults say they were brought up Buddhist in childhood but don’t identify as Buddhist today. 10 ...

All meditation centers have a structured program and schedule that practitioners, typically dressed in white pants and top, must follow individually or in group periods of meditation. Ordination is an ...

All meditation centers have a structured program ... Ordination is an important part of the Buddhist life course. Thai Buddhists often enter a monastery for a short period of time, temporarily ...

Of course, the audience knows all about the bad karma Greg stirred up in Sicily by organizing his wife's hit. In Buddhism, you can't enter a new life without balancing the karma, good and bad ...

A longstanding dispute over the control of Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar is once again at the forefront. Several ...

Miniature stupas, domelike Buddhist shrines, are nestled into the crevices of mountains along the highways in Bhutan.Sushmita Pathak/The World Buddhism is intertwined with all aspects of life in ...