Bhutan, the country that measures progress by Gross National Happiness, will host the Global Peace Prayer Festival from Nov 4–19. The 16-day event will gather top Buddhist leaders for rare rituals, ...

Two stone pagodas long recognized as masterpieces of early Goryeo architecture are set to be elevated from Treasures to ...

On a hill overlooking the plain and about 40 km from Bhopal, the site of Sanchi comprises a group of Buddhist monuments (monolithic pillars, palaces, temples and monasteries) all in different states ...

Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

The word Kapala is a Sanskirt term meaning skull, bowl, vessel, begging bowl and is a decorative human skull used as a ritual implement in both Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. They were often carved with ...

The vajra is the most important ritual implement of Vajrayana Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the word vajra is defined as something hard or mighty, as in a diamond. It symbolizes an impenetrable, immovable ...

Paraglider bomb attack in Myanmar: At least 24 people were killed and 47 others wounded when a motor-powered paraglider dropped two bombs on people gathered to celebrate Myanmar’s Buddhist festival in ...

At least 24 people, including children, were killed and more than 50 others were injured as Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village, according to a member of a resistance group ...

Myanmar’s military bombed a Buddhist festival this week, killing at least two dozen people and injuring dozens more, according to a witness and the country’s civilian government in exile. They said ...

As per reports, two bombs were released onto the crowd using a motorised paraglider, a personal aircraft operated by a single pilot. People in central Myanmar’s Monywa district marked the annual ...

Buddhist devotees lighting oil lamps at Botataung pagoda during celebrations of the full moon day of Thadingyut, the end of Buddhist Lent, in Yangon, Myanmar. This picture is of before the attack was ...