New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

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The epic of Lord Rama, known as the Ramayana in India, traveled far beyond its homeland, finding deep cultural roots in ...

One of the greatest examples of cultural sharing in the world, is the spread of Buddhism from India to Sri Lanka. The Island ...

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

Yet this fiction on Ajita, the forerunner of the Charvaka school of thought, forges forth with an inexorable, passionate force, drawing the reader inwards to the centrifuge of its arguments and ...

The celebration featured an exhibition of Madhubani art, traditional paintings ... The event emphasised the connection between Bihar and Sri Lanka, rooted in Gautama Buddha’s enlightenment in Bodh ...

‘The Buddha and His Dhamma’. Siddhartha Gautama leaves his princely abode to avert the vitikkamma (state of war) between Shakyas and Koliyas due to a dispute arising from the sharing of ...

2- “Whenever we speak of peace, the world listens to us. Because India is the land of Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi.” 3- “No matter how dark the night may seem, it is still just night ...