In Buddhism, we have a lot of holy books and the ... they only celebrate the birth of the Buddha. Mahayana Buddhists believe there are many different ways to gain enlightenment and that the ...

Buddhism is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development. Buddhists strive for a deep insight into the true nature of life and do not worship gods or deities. Buddhism is a spiritual ...

The main religions are Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, China’s indigenous Taoism, along with Shamanism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Naxi people’s Dongba religion. The Hui, Uygur ...

Buddhism did not fight the local beliefs it encountered as it spread, but rather assimilated into itself the elements most deeply held in various areas. This was not conquest of the sword, but rather ...

Some followers of Buddhism consider it to be a religion, while others think of it as a philosophy, practice, or way of life. The reason for the discrepancy is that there are many schools of ...

The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become. When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation ...

They also took 22 pledges, which were taken by Dr Babasaheb Ambekdar in 1956 after shunning Hinduism and converting to ...

In 1964, Ames argued that “magical animism and Buddhism” coexist without constituting a single Sinhalese religious system and concluded that the two units of religion “do not lie on one continuum, but ...

The museum aims to reclaim 350 Buddha bronzes excavated from Nagapattinam, now dispersed across museums in India and abroad, ...