In northern India, a man named Angulimala murdered travelers and wore their fingers as trophies, hunting his thousandth victim when he encountered the Buddha. No matter how fast he ran, he couldn’t ...

Walk the same path as the bupati who first discovered Borobudur at Le Temple, an Indonesian retreat where ancient history and ...

Buddhism, founded in the late 6th century B.C.E. by Siddhartha Gautama (the "Buddha"), is an important religion in most of the countries of Asia. Buddhism has assumed many different forms, but in each ...

Mandala'', a cosmic palace painstakingly created with colour pigments within the contours of a Buddhist monastery, with utmost spiritual sanctity, becomes the centre of much excitement when it ...

Actress, artist, model Noshin De Silva is not new to our scene. She was in the spotlight in the Thursday Island of 20th ...

Every year, Guruvayur Ekadashi — also observed as Gita Jayanti — reminds us of the power of reflection and conversation.

J K Dadoo writes that ancient India, through trade, religion and knowledge networks, shaped global civilisation as the world’s central intellectual and philosophical power ...

Buddha in the bush and a thousand miles from care, the quiet rural location south of Dubbo, seems the most unlikely spot for ...

The ethical substratum the Buddha enjoined — equanimity, compassion and selfless service — has largely vanished. As Aravind Adiga remarks in his novel The White Tiger, if the Buddha were to witness ...

Learn what Cambodian New Year is, why it matters, and how families celebrate with temples, merit-making, elder blessings, and ...

The ancient Silk Route was not only a trade route where goods could be transported between East and West, but was also a corridor where ideas could flow freely. This transmission of knowledge would ...