Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s the day we’ve all been dreading. “Death day”, as we’ve facetiously called it; the second-last day of a Buddhism ...

UNESCO says ancient Buddhist scriptures stored at Tokyo's Zojoji temple will be added to its Memory of the World list. The documents, known as the Three Editions of Buddhist Sacred Canons ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...

Beijing [China], April 16 (ANI): Chinese officials have interrogated and detained local Tibetans who shared photographs and posts on social media mourning the death of a prominent Tibetan Buddhist ...

"Chinese, Pakistani relationship well-known to world": Former Indian envoy to UN slams China for backing Pakistan on Pahalgam attack inquiry ...

Dorje, 56, was a high lama (spiritual guru in Tibetan Buddhism) and a renowned educator. He studied in Tibetan monasteries as well as in Beijing, India, and the United States. He fell out with the ...

This was the occasion when the Dalit leader chose Buddhism as a path to liberation from the oppressive and inhuman caste system. However, the moot question is: why did he choose Buddhi Pramode Mallik ...

People across Thailand have doused water on Buddhist statues at temples to celebrate the traditional start of the country's New Year. The time-honored Songkran festival began on Sunday.

A former chief of the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) accused of embezzling temple funds has been arrested in Texas, according to a source. Nopparat Benjawattananan, who fled overseas after the ...

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. Monks ...

A Malay NGO has urged Universiti Sains Malaysia to cancel an international conference on the ancient Kedah Tua civilisation, claiming that it promotes a Hindu-Buddhist narrative of Malay history.