The Tibetan Book of Buddhist Proportions via Public Domain Review. Born some time around the early 4th century B.C., Siddhārtha Gautama was a Nepalese monk and wandering sage whose teachings went ...

NEW YORK, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ According to new research, before he attained enlightenment, the historical Buddha may have been a seer-stargazer and the philosopher-king of Babylon.

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 ...

In his new book, Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, to be out in the US early March, this author of eight other books on Buddhism claims the Buddha was a man whose teachings were regarded by his ...

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.

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 ...

Gautama Buddha is an official Catholic saint. The Catholic Encyclopedia is quite unembarrassed about the whole incident. Their view, I think, is that sainthood is a human assignation, based on our ...