Celebrated on April 13 or 14, Baisakhi is a significant harvest festival in Punjab and Northern India, symbolising new ...

From floating shrines and striking synagogues to golden monuments and sprawling sacrificial sites, these are the most ...

Buddha Purnima marks the birth of Prince Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, who gave up his privileges and became the founder of Buddhism. It is observed on the full moon night of the Hindu month of Vaisakha.

From the reignited decades-old dispute over who controls the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya to Prime Minister Modi's recent visit ...

On April 8 — it was known as the Vaishakha Poornima Day, according to online sources — about 2,500 years ago, in the Lumbini ...

Long ago in ancient India reigned a Greek king named Menander I Soter, a great conqueror and benefactor of Buddhism ...

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” These are the famous words of Siddhartha Gautama, aka Buddha, and this ...

The tolerance levels of Sri Lankans don’t run deep. The populace here in the island have some association with at least one ...

The epic of Lord Rama, known as the Ramayana in India, traveled far beyond its homeland, finding deep cultural roots in ...

One of the greatest examples of cultural sharing in the world, is the spread of Buddhism from India to Sri Lanka. The Island ...

Many have read The Secret and tried the techniques it suggests—hanging images of their desires on  the wall, writing and repeating affirmations daily, and practicing visualization. While some may have ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues in a long procession toward the site revered as Siddhartha ...