After the Mahaparinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha, his profound non-sectarian, universal teachings were not confined to the borders of India but rather travelled throughout Asia, crossing the paths of ...
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‘Buddhism in India’: Publisher Anand on Gail Omvedt’s book on Buddhism and the politics of freedom
In the summer of 2003, I was reading Gail Omvedt’s Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, which had just been ...
The prominence of Lord Buddha's temples and stupas in India reflects the history and cultures of Buddhism. By visiting these sites, not only can a religious experience be gained, but these sites also ...
The set of 349 gems, returned to India after more than a century, connects the grandeur of ancient Buddhist heritage with the ...
In this Aug. 23, 2015, photo, women Buddhist monks stand beneath an image of Buddha at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Credit: AP Photo/Penny Yi Wang The Venerable ...
The item was excavated last March but has only been receiving wide attention in the last month: the two-foot-tall image of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, carved from Anatolian marble, in ...
In a moment being described as civilisationally historic, sacred relics of Lord Gautam Buddha excavated from Piprahwa, ...
In In Defense of Dharma, the scholar Tessa Bartholomeusz challenges the popular belief that nonviolence in Buddhism is absolute, arguing that while it is a core principle, it is not without exceptions ...
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