Without Ashoka’s Buddhist influence ... Ashoka the Great, the Mauryan emperor who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in ...

The elegantly carved feline figures from the third century B.C., unearthed by the British in northern India, embody both ...

Bronze Greek original was from the 4th century. Archaeological Museum of Corfu. Credit: Zde/ Wikimedia commonsCC BY-SA 4.0 The greatest Buddhist king of India, Ashoka, chose a Greek monk, also known ...

The 113th Bihar Diwas was celebrated for the first time in Sri Lanka by the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre in Colombo, drawing a crowd of nearly about 30,000 people. The event highlighted Bihar’s ...

By contrast, well-manicured Sarnath, one of Buddhism’s four holy sites, is an orderly place for contemplative commemoration, with remnants of monasteries and other Buddhist structures.

Bhikkhu Sanghasena The ongoing debates surrounding the Mahabodhi Temple Management Act, 1949, underscore a deeper issue of ...

AIMIM's Maharashtra president Imtiaz Jaleel said although a number of films were made in the western countries on World War ...

India, despite one of the world’s most diverse cultural ecosystems, has been falling behind in cultural diplomacy.

Buddhist monk Gyanbodhi, in his 70s, came to the Domuhan Road protest site from Jagdalpur in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. “If Buddha is the incarnation of Vishnu, then keep the idol of Buddha in ...