Buddha You’ve likely seen fat, smiling Buddha statues in Chinese restaurants, antique stores and even neighborhood gardens, ...

A Review of Rajendra Alwis’s book ‘Siddhartha Gauthama’ Gautama Buddha has been such a towering figure for over twenty six centuries of human history that there is no shortage of authors attempting to ...

The Buddha's Birthday is an important day of celebration for Buddhists around the world. The holiday is traditionally celebrated in most of South and East Asia to commemorate the birth of Prince ...

Guiding Light: Gautama Buddha. Dada J. P. VaswaniUpdated: Monday, May 20, 2024, ... He beheld what the Buddhist books call the “four signs,” — witnesses to the impermanence of the world.

Buddha Purnima 2025: Buddha Purnima 2025 celebrates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Siddhartha Gautama, who became Gautam Buddha. Born in Lumbini, Nepal, he renounced his royal life to seek ...

But what about Yashodara, the wife and mother of a newborn son, he left behind?      That’s where "The Illusion of Illusions: The Story of Yashodara, Buddha's Wife" by Sunita Pant Bansal comes in. The ...

Buddhism, founded in the late 6th century B.C.E. by Siddhartha Gautama (the "Buddha"), is an important religion in most of the countries of Asia. Buddhism has assumed many different forms, but in each ...

Buddha's metaphor of rebirth is a powerful one. Each morning, when we wake up, we have the chance to leave behind the past and start fresh. This idea of daily rebirth inspires us to continually ...

This statue of a bodhisattva (an individual who seeks enlightenment) is one of over 260 statues that was discovered buried near the cremated remains of what an inscription says is the Gautama ...

H.G. Wells (1866–1946). A Short History of the World. 1922 BUT now we must go back three centuries in our story to tell of a great teacher who came near to revolutionizing the religious thought and ...