Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s Buddhist history hasn’t got much attention from mainstream historians. But a new paper maps the widespread travels of a 16th-century Buddhist yogi from Rameswaram. He set out ...

In the same, the idol's uniform had a name tag with a Buddhist symbol in between. This is to indicate that the idol is part of the group of military officers who take part in religious duties.

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...

Shunmyo Masuno, a Zen Buddhist monk devotes an entire section of his book, "How to Let Things Go," to how you can avoid making things more difficult for yourself. It may be hard to look on the ...

Soon after his parents gave the an 8-year-old Jeff Dunham a dummy as a present, he decided he was going to be the world’s best ventriloquist. After decades of grinding through teen talent shows ...

A man is dead after suffering severe burns inside the Watt Buddhacheya Mongkol Buddhist Temple in Lake Ridge, Virginia. Prince William County police said they responded to the scene on Thursday ...

Buddhism in Germany by William Peiris focuses on the contribution made by the German scholars towards the spread of Buddhism in Germany in particular, and the West in general. The Book narrates the ...

In late October 2023, a coalition of three ethnic armed groups in Shan State launched a coordinated offensive against the ruling military junta, posing the strongest challenge to its rule since ...

I read the statement by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s to the UN General Assembly which was short and dignified. Expressing his thoughts by saying that there is a need for a Joint Effort for ...

He was a ‘pioneer’ in the struggle to bring the President in to that high office. Then, the lady dressed in a smart saffron blouse pronounces the exotic Sinhala name of the candidate and says ...

The recent violent attacks in Colombo mainly by Buddhist monks against a small group of desperate asylum seeking Muslim Rohingyas have brought the Burmese reality into Sri Lanka. The Mahanayakas or ...