Buddhists across the country have joined protests after monks at the Mahabodhi Temple were forcibly removed by police.

Buddhist monk Gyanbodhi, in his 70s, came to the Domuhan Road protest site from Jagdalpur in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. “If Buddha is the incarnation of Vishnu, then keep the idol of Buddha in ...

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

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

and the Buddhist monk Zhigong (418-514) are brought to life in the drama. The 40 performers, 18 women and 22 men, radiate an ancient charm that encapsulates the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty ...

Myanmar’s military junta is continuing to bomb resistance strongholds amid a desperate rescue effort and massive humanitarian ...

As Iranians celebrate the Persian New Year, explore the fascinating calendars still used around the world—shaped by sun, moon ...

Thus, it is intriguing that Menander became interested in Buddhism. The monk who converted Menander was Nagasena ... The Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Afghan Taliban, were an example ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- For centuries they have gazed benevolently ... Frescoes on the walls surrounding the statues, as well as grottoes dug in the fifth and sixth centuries by Buddhist monks, have ...

He recounted the journey of Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang), the famed Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar, who travelled on foot ... Within two to three hundred years, it spreads to Pakistan, Gandhara, ...