In 1997, the Dalai Lama said that according to traditional Buddhist texts: "Sexual organs were created for reproduction between the male element and the female element — and everything that ...

which manifested in an obsessive engagement with the core Buddhist texts. This period also witnessed the emergence of greater European and colonial interest in India’s ancient past. There was an ...

I am writing this brief essay in connection with the felicitation ceremony for Emeritus Professor Asanga Tilakaratne, one of the foremost ...

Ramayana in Chinese Buddhist Texts At a symposium on “Ramayana- A Timeless Guide” organised by the Indian Embassy here on Saturday, a host of Chinese scholars associated with longstanding ...

BEIJING: China has had footprints of the stories of Ramayana cloaked in Buddhist scriptures for centuries, scholars here have ...

Goto believed Buddhism should be spread by flexibly changing ... They were then converted into texts. Paintings and stone reliefs were then created. These two-dimensional representations ended ...