A devotee offers milk while praying in a temple on the occasion of Buddha Purnima festival in Kolkata, India, Monday, May 12, ...

Reiko Ohnuma, a scholar of South Asian Buddhism, argues that Maya is remembered in Buddhist tradition as an idealized, if ...

The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, taught that family ties were obstacles to enlightenment. However, his relationship ...

Yon Seng Yeath, the highest representative of Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Nun Nget, the Great Supreme Patriarch ...

Thirteen monks are awarded the prestigious Tibetan Buddhist academic degree Geshe Lharampa, equivalent to a doctorate in mainstream higher education, in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, on ...

The group was reported to be travelling to India and Nepal to visit the Four Holy Places of Buddhism — Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, and Kushinagar. The monks were selected by the Department of ...

A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India are working to promote harmony and cultivate compassion, one grain of sand at a time. As part of their Sacred Arts tour, ...

Colombo, April 25 (Daily Mirror) -A schoolboy who attempted to enter the Sri Dalada Maligawa, clad as a Buddhist monk was arrested by the police. The suspect is identified as a 18-year-old ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka have stopped a popular Vietnamese monk and his companions from continuing a walking pilgrimage to India after Vietnam’s state-sanctioned Buddhist association accused him of ...

(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 ...

This is the heartwarming moment a kind Buddhist monk saved a lost baby owl. Phra Kru Odd, an elephant conservationist from the Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan temple, spotted the owl fledgling lying on ...