Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], May 23 (ANI): Thousands of devotees gathered in Haridwar to take a holy dip and offer prayers on the auspicious occasion of Buddha Purnima. The city witnessed a massive ...

The whole world celebrates Buddha Purnima to mark the birth anniversary of Gautama Buddha. This year, Buddha Purnima will be celebrated on Friday. Gautama Budhha is the person behind the origin of ...

The ancient Indian gemstones linked to Buddha that were pulled out from a Sotheby’s sale earlier this year have found their way home after 127 years. India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar, in the holy presence of Buddhist spiritual leader Ogyen Trinle Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, formally inaugurated the three-day cultural extranaza Bihar assembly Speaker Uday ...

Buddhists in Japan learn teachings of Buddha from a humanoid deity. KYOTO, Japan -- Every week, 62-year-old Miyuki Tanaka joins a pious crowd of Buddhists heading to the historic Kodaiji Temple in ...

The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, known as Wat Pho in Thai, is a Buddhist temple complex which is most known for its gold-plated "Reclining Buddha" sculpture. The Buddha measures 151 feet long and ...

The Congress today dismissed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion in Britain that "intolerance would not be accepted in India", describing the statement as "hypocritical" and ...

Lama Chuck Stanford, Rime Buddhist Center: It is true that the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was born into a royal family that practiced and studied the Vedic tradition (Hindu is a modern term). This is ...

The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's spiritual journey to Enlightenment, and of the teachings and ways of living that developed from it. The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's ...

Archaeologists working in Nepal have uncovered evidence of a structure at the birthplace of the Buddha dating to the sixth century B.C. This is the first archaeological material linking the life of ...