Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BODH GAYA, India- The road to Bodh Gaya, one of Buddhism’s holiest sites, had been long and strenuous. Four hours of jolting along potholed roads had taken ...

Monks and nuns from 40 countries will attend India’s Republic Day as honoured guests, showcasing Buddhist values of social ...

NEW DELHI (ANI) – The vast mosaic of Indian culture has long been shaped by the spiritual, the philosophical, and the transcendent. Yet, few forces have been as profoundly influential as Buddhism, an ...

While the India-ASEAN trade review chugs along, and negotiators circle the text, the terrain is shifting. Buddhism is now not only integral to the Modi government’s cultural diplomacy with the ASEAN, ...

Even as India and China continue to be locked in a military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the two countries are grappling for influence over the Buddhist world. This week ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began a ...

India's Commitment to Buddhist Principles On Saturday, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju emphasized that as more individuals ...

NEW YORK, NY– The exhibition ‘Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE will run from July 21 to November 13, 2023, at the Met, here. A special preview and reception to celebrate the ...

India Overhauls Teaching in Himalayan Buddhist Monasteries to Counter China By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is preparing to roll out its first school curriculum for Buddhist monasteries this ...

NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Four survivors of a brutal 2016 beating at the hands of India’s so-called cow protectors converted to Buddhism this week in a high-profile ceremony recalling one of the ...

Aloka, an Indian stray, has now become a ‘peace dog’ after he joined Buddhist monks on ‘Walk for Peace’. He travelled with ...

Although Buddhists form only a small minority in modern India, the significance of India as the spiritual homeland for both Buddhism and Buddhists cannot be overemphasized. (The Buddha himself, who ...