It is very unlikely that Siddhartha Gautama was referred to as the Buddha during his lifetime and is likely to have been called Sakyamuni, the ascetic of the Sakya clan, or simply by his name ...
Through retreats at the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, Pico Iyer explores the tension between inner peace and worldly ...
The story of the Buddha comes to us from around 2,500 years ... For example, early Nikaya Buddhism was highly ascetic, but later Mahayana Buddhism introduced the compassionate ideal of the ...
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So many types of Nagas
The various mountain springs across Kashmir valley are also called Naga and have been worshipped by the local population ...
A journey through the sacred Buddhist pilgrimage destinations is an experience that goes beyond spirituality—it is a ...
Buddha Gaya where as an ascetic he attained enlightenment; Sarnath where he preached his first sermon as the Buddha; and Kusinara where he died – Parinibbana. The Buddha always insisted he was just a ...
Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...
This unabridged translation of Kalki Krishnamurthy's masterwork by Nandini Krishnan is at once faithful to the original and ...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that "our ideals and national heroes" are Maharana Pratap, Veer ...