Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles ...

Forty-one bodies have been found inside a Buddhist monastery in Thailand where they were allegedly being used in meditation ...

Hundreds of thousands, particularly members of the SC Mahar caste, had converted to Buddhism in this region of central India ...

Deep in the mountains of northern Wakayama Prefecture, nestled in stately tall trees, sits one of the most important Buddhist ...

The Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh said that everyone has a “ Buddha nature .” Everyone is capable of becoming a ...

Dorje was about 4 months old when he was identified by Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, a venerated master of Tibetan Buddhism and leader of the Nyingma lineage. He was later confirmed by several lamas ...

Jains in Tamil Nadu are commemorating the 2,550th anniversary of Mahavira's nirvana, coinciding with the 50th year of a ...

Buddhism originated in India over 2500 years ago. It is a nontheistic faith founded by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the ...

Dharmakṣema, who hailed from Central India, was instrumental in the translation of important Buddhist texts to Chinese in 5th ...

(MENAFN- Asia Times) Can civilizational values reshape Asian international relations? India currently is addressing that question through Buddhism. Some context: While India has a majority Hindu ...

Shurei Sasai has been devoting his life to freeing people from discrimination based on the Indian caste system for more than ...

The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, ...