Yet, in both Christianity and Buddhism, the body of the founder emerged, centuries after their death, as the privileged focus ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

A journey through the sacred Buddhist pilgrimage destinations is an experience that goes beyond spirituality—it is a ...

The various mountain springs across Kashmir valley are also called Naga and have been worshipped by the local population ...

They spread rumours that the water was polluted, but ‘behta paani aur ramta jogi kabhi ashuddh nahi hota (flowing water and wandering ascetic can never be impure ... worth `1,467 crore for Gautam ...

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Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle. Initially, the Israel Antiquities Authority, which oversaw the dig, reported ...

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 ...

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 ...

I feel his vision is more in tune with modern Thailand, and I’m sure he’ll be a positive force looking ahead. The Lord Buddha designed four groups of Buddhism (Fourfold of Sangha): bhikkhu [male monks ...