Poring over ancient Buddhist texts, Jay L. Garfield, Maria Heim, and Robert H. Sharf have teamed together to dismantle notions of the self in How To Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Founded in India, Buddhism also found a fertile ground in Southeast Asia, where it took root and flourished for centuries, shaping the region’s socioeconomic, political ...

Amaravati is what happens when a place forgets that it’s supposed to age. Once a thriving Buddhist hub around 2,000 years ago, it now sits nonchalantly by the Krishna River. The Great Stupa ...

MAGELANG, Indonesia -- Towering high over the countryside in central Java's Kedu Valley, the Borobudur temple complex is one of the world's biggest and most revered Buddhist monuments. These days ...

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

Representatives from Buddhist communities, experts, scholars, and guests from over 70 countries are attending the October 15-17 Sixth World Buddhist Forum in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, eastern China.

Buddhism offers powerful meditation techniques for taming your inner chaos and connecting to something bigger than yourself. And, different types of meditation practices provide unique pathways to ...

A. The grades by which one ascends to the priesthood are: 1.(1) Tonsure, or the clipping of the hair by the bishop, by which the candidate for priesthood dedicates 3.(3) Sub-deaconship ...

This Buddhist festival is not fixed to a date in the Gregorian calendar. Vesak, in most countries, is celebrated on the day of the full moon in the month of May. This day corresponds to the first ...

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