and not only thinking of the Buddha as a man who lived four, five hundred years before, and who has initiated a new way of looking at life." (Claudine Bautze-Pictron) This week in our history we ...

Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibet has enjoyed a rich history of philosophical enquiry and carries this heritage forth today. Buddhism is a "wisdom tradition," meaning that it is based ...

My name is Hivin and I'm a Buddhist. I follow the teachings of the Buddha, who lived two and a half thousand years ago. He said that life was full of suffering and that suffering was caused by ...

The book “Casting the Buddha: A Monumental History of Buddhism in India” by Shashank Shekhar Sinha traces 2500 years of history of Buddha and Buddhism. The book mentions how it got linked with ...

Throughout history, certain trees have stood well beyond ... his theory of gravity to the Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment, these iconic trees continue to stand as ...

A giant open air Buddha statue sits calmly at the Thubten Choekhorthang in Gelephu Thromde. The Buddha statue faces south to India, overlooking the junction of four prominent roads, coming from ...

History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. But Buddhism played a major role in a fall of the centre of the Islamic Empire.

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin Township, near Princeton. It was built a decade ago under the leadership of a Sri Lankan ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal ― Nepal’s Ambassador to Korea Kamal Prasad Koirala has written a letter to President Lee Myung-bak requesting him to change the erroneous information in South Korean textbooks ...