While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to the 12 ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at ...

Buddha Purnima or Buddha's birthday is observed on the Tithi of Shukla Paksha Purnima (full moon day) in the month of Vaisakh of the traditional Hindu calendar that falls during the months of ...

An agitation demanding the end of ‘Brahmin control’ over the Mahabodhi temple has struck a chord in Maharashtra and other ...

The brilliance of this “Puranic” Hinduism, as scholars call it, is that it could easily be picked up and transplanted elsewhere. There could only be one place where the Buddha was born ...

Thousands in Ladakh have joined the hunger strike in Bodh Gaya for full control of the Mahabodhi temple, the place where according to tradition the Buddha received enlightenment. At the heart of the p ...

“Knowledge and compassion are the message of the Buddha. Basavanna and the other Sharanas (reformers) took the Buddha’s philosophy forward to establish an egalitarian society free from all ...

Deccan – Plateau in South Central India. Dharma – Duty (Hinduism); righteousness (Jainism); teachings of Buddha (Buddhism). Digambara– A sect belonging to the Jain religion known as ‘sky ...

Tourism Minister plans to revive stalled Sayana Buddha project in Ghantasala, Krishna district, attracting global tourists interested in Buddhist culture.