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...

As per Buddhist lore, soon after he attained Buddhahood, Siddhartha Gautama was fed by two merchants. They said they could not be bhikku (m...

“Yoga, India’s civilizational pathway to holistic wellbeing, continues to attract enthusiasts in the Philippines cutting across gender, cla...

The same applies to mythology. Mythology focuses on tales of kings and priests, rajas and rishis. It does not focus on stories from the mer...

The digital exhibition titled " Bodhicitta: Interweaving Buddhist Art Traditions from India Across Asia” curated by National Museum was dis...

In the venture capitalist industry, it is known that all things being the same, a tall handsome man who presents well, preferably with an A...

The SCO represents 42% of the world’s population, 22% of the land area and 20% of global GDP. Its goal, when it began two decades ago in Ju...

The content will now have more news-related programmes and commentary on national affairs. According to officials, this strategy will help ...

There were many reasons attributed to why India’s maritime trade declined. One reason was the tension between the Brahmins and the Buddhist...

In the Buddhist scheme of things, a king was seen on both the materialistic and deepest spiritual terms.

When women became powerful in the Roman empire, and in China and in Tibet, the masculine religions were forced to make room for the female ...

Little do we realise that food has seeped into our consciousness at a very early age — through folktales, parables, fables, rhymes and bedt...

Modi, who held talks with Najib earlier in the day, inaugurated the gate at the Little India enclave in Brickfields here.

"I saw these extraordinary but unfamiliar paintings. I couldn't recall having seen their photographs anywhere, in any books on Ajanta," he ...

Ganga Dussehra is the main attraction and what’s in store is some amazing, electrifying moments on the banks of River Ganga.

Under flashlight, Shibi Jataka shimmers into view like a bejewelled mosaic from Ajanta’s darkened cave.

Lantau is just 190 mins away from Hong Kong but is a place where the Buddha and Disney’s fairy tale world co-exist in peaceful duality.