The Ocean Sutra is a 1,500-year-old Mahayana Buddhist manuscript that shows a strong influence of Tantrik Shaiva ideology. It ...

Located around 50km south-east of the capital Leh, Takthok is the only monastery in Ladakh that belongs to the oldest school ...

Demons form an essential part of the type of Buddhism practiced in Tibet. Derived from the native Tibetan religion, these ...

Explore the revelations from the international seminar 'Kashi Vaibhav: A Historical Discourse' at Banaras Hindu University, where scholars discussed Kashi's significance and the prophecy of the next ...

These tales, primarily originating from Indian Buddhist traditions, have transcended geographical boundaries, evolving into ...

Long-standing tensions between Japan and South Korea have reached a symbolic peak over a Buddhist statue stolen from Kannonji ...

The Vas retreat of three months during the rainy season where upasampada bhikkhus (high ordained monks) stay indoors, which ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...

“Like a little meditation?” I venture. “Exactly,” he replies, emphatically, validating our shared moment of mindfulness.

Similar to Ningbo's Maitreya theme, Zhoushan, also located in Zhejiang, boasts its own Buddhist destination, the Putuo Mountain. Dedicated to Guanyin, a Bodhisattva known as the Goddess of Mercy ...

Buddhists perform a series of special religious ... King Suddhodhana had taken prince Siddhartha – Bodhisattva out on that day to see the ploughing festival. Nineteen Amunas had been ploughed ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered about a dozen sandstone statues in Angkor, an archaeological site in Cambodia which ...