Shikoku has a quiet, but profound presence in Japan's archipelago. It wears its heart on its sleeve, inviting you to explore ...

Hundreds of damaged Buddhist statues and assorted debris were unearthed, allowing archaeologists, historians, scholars and ...

Welcome to Religions of the World. Buddhism: The Religion of Buddhists. Buddhism is about 2,500 years old and people who follow Buddhism are called Buddhists. Buddhists follow the teachings of a ...

Themes: Buddhism; the life of the Buddha; the festivals of Wesak and Parinirvana Day; the Eightfold Path. Summary: this assembly is suitable at about the time of the festivals of Wesak (April or ...

is a portrait of the Indian monk Atisha (A.D. 982 to A.D. 1054), who was instrumental in introducing later schools of Buddhism — Mahayana, Vajrayana — to Tibet. With his peaked cap and pudding ...

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], January 12 (ANI): The Buddhist scholars and monastic ... qualifications equivalent to 10th and 12th-grade school certificates." Said Maling Gompu.

A millennium ago, India was still a Buddhist headwater. Various schools flowed north and east, to China and Japan, but one, Vajrayana Buddhism, left its richest deposits on the Tibetan Plateau.

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

The Commissioner-General of Buddhist Affairs says that all Buddhist Sunday Dhamma schools in the country, except for those located in isolated areas, will reopen on January 17. Sunday Dhamma schools ...

In December, when Archaeological Survey of India’s superintending archaeologist D B Garnayak and his team took up excavations at the 5th-13th Century Buddhist complex in Ratnagiri, in Odisha’s Jajpur ...

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The find includes 18 sculptures, some of which are rare representations of Shaiva and Buddhist deities, dating back to the 6th or 7th century CE. Ancient sculptures, including remnants of Shaiva ...