The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Explore the intellectual interplay between Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and Prof. John Dewey's pragmatism in understanding societal ...

Shen Yun's controversies include allegations of forced and unpaid labor, human trafficking, and its role in the Falun Gong ...

The Buddha, born a human being, is characterised by his superhuman achievements. His unique wisdom, compassion, exemplary life style and leadership made some deify him. He was the first to establish a ...

A Tibetan Buddhist monk is standing before the seated Buddha, tears pouring down his cheeks. He takes out his phone and captures the massive sculpture, the Bodhisattvas flanking it and the small cells ...

Sir David O’Grady Roche (77), a Carlow-born baronet living in Britain since the 1960s, promised to guide me. Roche (he dropped the O’Grady leg of his name in Britain years ago) suggested we ...

“A star is really born when it gets hot enough in the center that you can hit hydrogen atoms together and they make helium,” says Ashley Villar, an astronomer at Harvard University. Stars then mostly ...

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there is a Buddha in all of us and the historical Buddha should be referred to as Gautama Buddha. Even Mahayana does not go to the extent of calling all of us Buddhas though it claims that as one ...

Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images. Make it they did as Josh Inglis, the Leeds-born batsman/wicketkeeper, achieved his maiden hundred in one-day internationals, reached from 77 balls with ...