Buddhism, founded by Gautama Buddha in the 6th century BCE, is one of the major world religions that focuses on the path to ...

The Chinese government venerates Kumarajiva not only for his contributions to Buddhism but also as a symbol of China’s ...

The tributes continue for Kultida Woods. Tiger Woods’ mother died on Feb. 4 at age 80, which was one of the reasons why Woods ...

Dr Upul Wijayawardhana How would the Buddha have looked like in real life?” This question was posed by Prof. Asanga Thilakaratna, the Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, during one of the ...

Can a Buddhist nation — a truly Buddhist one, not one that nominally follows the Buddha’s teachings — reach economic powerhouse ...

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: Trance/Dance in Folk Rituals The lecture Namika heard on ‘pregnancy cravings’ ...

The kind of changes you have seen in Tamil Nadu, in most parts of Northeast. Arunachal Pradesh used to be a Buddhist majority till 2001, in 2011 it's a Christian majority. If you look at what is ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire, attachment or craving. As a Buddhist ...

A Buddhist monk has been mauled to death by his own pet pit bull, which launched a brutal attack on the man's face. Phra Bandit Bootsen was feeding the one-year-old pup named Jord, when it latched ...