Buddhism, particularly in the Theravāda tradition practiced in Sri Lanka, sets out clear ethical principles for personal and ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will welcome experts from the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos), arriving this week to assess Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in ...

On a hill overlooking the plain and about 40 km from Bhopal, the site of Sanchi comprises a group of Buddhist monuments (monolithic pillars, palaces, temples and monasteries) all in different states ...

Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the ...

Malaysian Buddhists celebrated the continuing Wesak festivities in fine and grateful style in Brickfields on Saturday (May 31 ...

Some 150 delegates from Asian countries and around the world met in Cambodia’s capital for the Eighth Buddhist-Christian ...

YOGYAKARTA: Indonesia is seeking to strengthen bilateral ties with Thailand through cooperation in sustainable tourism and their shared Buddhist heritage, as the two nations look to spiritual and ...

Venerable Walpola Rahula Thero’s 118th death anniversary fell on the 9th of May. On the 24th of May, a commemorative event is ...

We have closely followed the cases of students and immigrants, arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

One of the dozen of books that Nehru got from his father, when he was imprisoned in a Lucknow jail by the British in 1922, was a copy of The Light of Asia. Eighteen years later,in February 1940, Nehru ...

The 118th birth anniversary of Prof. Walpola Sri Rahula Thero will be held on 24 May at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute at ...

Overlooking the Vamsadhara River, Salihundam contains centuries of Buddhist evolution carved into its soil. Mahayana, Theravada, and even a bit of Vajrayana—it’s all here, stacked like an ...