Illustrated Buddhist manuscripts from mainland Southeast Asia are famous for their lavish and often very detailed depictions of scenes from the Life of Buddha and the Buddha’s Birth Tales, known as ...

Seven years ago, when Buddhist scholar and former monk Stephen Batchelor embarked on a search for the real Siddhartha Gautama, rooting through over 6,000 pages of the Pali Canon—the oldest set of ...

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The auspicious day dedicated to Buddha, Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti will be celebrated on May 7, 2020. The day marks the birth anniversary of Gautam Buddha. Many believe that Buddha attained ...

The voluminous biography of Sir Edwin Arnold’s 5,300-line epic poem, “The Light of Asia” (1879), by the former Union minister, Jairam Ramesh, is significant in the present-day context for multiple ...

Buddha Purnima 2023: Buddhism is one of the major religions and philosophical systems of southern and eastern Asia and the world. Followers of Buddhism are known as Buddhists. All forms of Buddhism ...