Mayawati voiced support for Buddhist demands to grant full control of the Mahabodhi temple's religious practices, safety, and preservation to Buddhist monks, criticizing alleged casteist ...

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 ...

Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them. One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his dead colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to Thailand during their country's decades of dictatorship and turmoil.

Festivities will be in full swing this weekend at the Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple at 3732 E. Carpenter Road in Stockton. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

NEW YORK, April 17, 2017 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on ...

Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. India is set to introduce its first school curriculum for Buddhist monasteries this month with the aim of countering China's ...

NEW DELHI: India is preparing to roll out its first school curriculum for Buddhist monasteries this month, aiming to unify education programmes and foster patriotism in Himalayan religious centers ...

India is set to introduce a unified curriculum in Buddhist monasteries near the Chinese border, aiming to strengthen national identity and counter China's influence. The initiative seeks to ...