While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived from the Ashokan period in the 3rd century BC to the Pala period in ...

(Relevance: Buddhism is one of the most favourite topics of the UPSC. Several questions have been asked by UPSC on Buddhism. In 2020, UPSC asked a question on events in the history of India. In this ...

The two-day International Conclave on Buddha Dhamma and the Culture of North-East India concluded in Namsai with a call to preserve and promote the region’s ancient Buddhist traditions and ...

Against this backdrop, the protest at the Mahabodhi temple carries a different story. There is no Muslim invasion, but a temple under Brahmin control. Since February 2025, Buddhist monks have been ...

The International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, organised a two-day International Conclave at Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh, from Monday (April 21). The ...

Pope Francis 'dedicated himself to the service of others,' Dalai Lama says After taking a trip to Thailand in 2019, Francis welcomed a delegation of about 100 Buddhist monks from the Wat Phra ...

Religious communities around the world joined Catholics mourning the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. Francis' election as the spiritual leader of the nearly 1.4 billion baptized Catholics ...