The word “Ahimsa,” derived from Sanskrit, means non-harm or non-injury and is often translated into English as non-violence. ...

Post the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, there was a progressive demand in the United Kingdom and Europe for ...

However, there are different Buddhist beliefs, based on the five moral precepts as well as ethical reasons, about the type of contraception being used and how they work. The First Moral Precept ...

This clip could be used as a summary of the main Buddhist beliefs. Pupils could work in pairs to summarise this clip in 100 words, communicating the essential ideas. This clip could form part of a ...

Thus a new religion was born. This Buddhist faith flourished for a few centuries in India until through certain circumstances it became practically extinct in the land of its birth. Meantime ...

The word “Ahimsa,” derived from Sanskrit, means non-harm or non-injury and is often translated into English as non-violence. The dictionary defines ...

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

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...

Roughly 500 million people declare themselves as faithful followers of some branch of Buddhism. It is the fourth most ...