Jains in Tamil Nadu are commemorating the 2,550th anniversary of Mahavira's nirvana, coinciding with the 50th year of a ...

Dharmakṣema, who hailed from Central India, was instrumental in the translation of important Buddhist texts to Chinese in 5th ...

Buddhism originated in India over 2500 years ago. It is a nontheistic faith founded by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the ...

My name is Hivin and I'm a Buddhist. I follow the teachings of the Buddha, who lived two and a half thousand years ago. He said that life was full of suffering and that suffering was caused by ...

Democracy depends upon using words wisely. With the right words, citizens can live and work together, even in disagreement – ...

A lesson from Buddhism seems particularly apt in this moment of enemyship: Treat the people you disagree with as mistaken rather than evil. There is a profound optimism at the heart of most ...

The Buddhist tradition often sees marriage as a legal agreement between partners. It is not a religious duty. Buddhists generally follow the marriage laws and customs of their country. It is ...

Women may not have been considered equal to men in society of the time, or even in the Buddhist Sanghas, but Buddhism was the first religious sect to establish a sangha for bhikkhunis. Just having a ...

“While the Vatican Council in Rome is celebrating the eventual unity of all Christians, here in New York we are celebrating the essential unity of all man’s religions,” Unitarian Minister ...

These Christian ethnic minorities live in a unique context: In Myanmar, Buddhism is the state religion, and Buddhists make up 90 percent of the population. Most of the country’s elite ...

DHAKA, Nov 19, 2024 (BSS) - The government has formed the trustee board of Buddhist Religious Welfare Trust with Religious ...