Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what motherhood means in different religions and cultures. As a scholar of Buddhism and gender, I know how complicated Buddhist attitudes toward ...

The Mathura school grew in Uttar Pradesh and carved a confident, rooted Indian image of the Buddha. Artists used local red ...

Queen Maya, the Buddha's mother, gave birth to him in Lumbini Garden; where is this garden located, in which country is it ...

Global stability and peace could greatly benefit from the teachings of Gautama Buddha, Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus says. On ...

Stephen Batchelor, a teacher and former Buddhist monk who rose to prominence after the publication of 1997’s Buddhism without Belief s, offers a philosophical exploration of secular Buddhism in his ...

The concept was simple yet profound: paint on the board with water, watch your creation come to life, and then let it fade as ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday extended wishes on the occasion of Buddha Purnima and said that Lord Buddha's life will always inspire the world community towards "compassion and peace." "Best ...

The relics will be transported with full reverence and protocol by a special Indian Air Force aircraft, accompanied by senior ...

There is a blue one who can't accept the green one … for living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one, and different strokes for different folks, and so on and so on … I am everyday people. — Sly ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has greeted the members of the Buddhist community in the country and across the globe on the occasion of the Probarona Purnima and Kathin Chibar Dana, a ...

Prince Siddhartha with his foster mother Mahaprajapati. A 1910 painting by Maligawage Sarlis. Photo by MediaJet, 2009 via Wikimedia Commons Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee Mother’s Day offers an ...