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 ...

NEW DELHI – Auction house Sotheby’s has postponed the sale of a collection of ancient jewels linked to the relics of the Buddha after the Indian government formally objected and ...

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Start your biking adventure from Changhua’s iconic Big Buddha statue Sponsor Content Paid for by Taiwan Tourism The phrase “looking at the world through another’s eyes” has new meaning ...

The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka, along with Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre and Bihar Museum, organised ‘Dhamma Rupa’ exhibition as part of the Buddha Rashmi Vesak Festival at Seemamalakaya, ...

Members of the local Buddhist community will mark the most important day on their religious calendar today. Vesak, also known as Buddha Day, is observed globally to commemorate the birth, ...

Colombo, May 16 (Daily Mirror) - The Sri Lankan Buddhist Lawyers' Association has extended its warmest congratulations to the newly appointed 51st Chief Justice of India, Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai ...

Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one ...

A special exhibition featuring a Buddhist statue recently returned from South Korea has opened at a museum in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki. The statue, designated by the prefecture ...

Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, India's 52nd chief justice and its first Buddhist one, has played a key role in shaping the judicial landscape, penning about 300 verdicts, including landmark ...

Justice Gavai is the second person from the Dalit community and first Buddhist to be Chief Justice of India. Before him, former CJI KG Balakrishnan became the first Dalit CJI in 2007. Balakrishnan ...

He is also the first Buddhist judge to become the CJI of the Country. He was elevated from the Bombay High Court to the Supreme Court on May 24, 2019.