The prominence of Lord Buddha's temples and stupas in India reflects the history and cultures of Buddhism. By visiting these ...

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was famously denounced as an “unmitigated rascal” by the New York Times in 1871. In Sri Lanka, ...

Devotional Tipitaka chanting by 108 monks at Buddha Vihar in Kalaburagi for five hours celebrates Tipitaka Saddhamma ...

Buddhism, founded by Gautama Buddha in the 6th century BCE, is one of the major world religions that focuses on the path to ...

Samvad, as a civilisational dialogue, offers a fresh opportunity to deliberate and shape the essence and spirit of the Asian Century ...

It is a fundamental instinct of human nature to seek solace through prayers in times of despair and need. Prayer is a ...

The Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Oman marked the New Year with an all-night Pirith chanting ceremony and a series of ...

Most Ven Pallegama Hemarathana Nayake Thera, Chief Incumbent of the Great Eight Buddhist Shrines (Atamasthanadhipathi) of Anuradhapura, visited the Jambudvipa Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple in Sarnath, ...

The Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya is decorated on this day and devotees perform special prayers under the bodhi tree under which the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. In India and ...

When Greg Dyment took over as director in 1997, the 26-acre botanical gardens at Cal State Fullerton were in need of ...