India is hosting the First Asian Buddhist Summit on November 5-6, celebrating the rich heritage of Buddha Dhamma and its influence across A...

PM Narendra Modi's visit to Laos for the ASEAN Summit includes witnessing Pha Lak Pha Lam, a Lao adaptation of the Ramayana. This performan...

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled a bust of Rabindranath Tagore in Vietnam and watched a performance by Quan Ho Art Th...

ET gathers that the proposal cites the precedence of the lone such ‘floating’ constituency- Sangha- that is in Sikkim and has demanded a si...

"India has never had a history or tradition of attacking others' ideology or country. We have also never tried to create a distinction betw...

Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman of Brunei Darussalam got the award in the medicine category. He is the founder of the Society for...

Narendra Modi had pushed Buddhism diplomacy during his recent trip to Hanoi. India had announced special annual scholarships for Vietnamese...

Maas is a nascent body of 320 monastic and lay Buddhist organizations across 39 countries. The body is of the opinion that Buddha’s teachin...

Fighting on a ticket from Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, Lama had defeated two other monks in the recently concluded Assembly polls to win the u...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a Bodhigara, or a tree shrine, at the spot what is claimed as the world's oldest Buddhist shrine.

Draped in maroon robes, the candidates don't shout political slogans, put up posters or raise flags but opt for quiet meetings with monk vo...

Devadutta, the Buddha’s cousin, tried to persuade Master to step down in his own favour. When he failed, Devadutta stormed out of the sangh...

The Spiritual Atheist does wonder about the efficacy of self-sacrifice as an engine of reform in today’s world.

While overall divorce rates in developed countries remain around 50%, those about to get married estimate their own chance of failure at 0%.

“When it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity, we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware it w...

"My Master taught me to give, give and give," says Dada J P Vaswani on the eve of his 93rd birthday celebrations in Pune.

Politics and religion should not mix, but a welcome confluence is seen during the polls in Sikkim when Buddhist monks take a break from spi...