A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh has found renown for opening its doors to the needy during Ramadan -- a beacon of ...

Mitsutake Ikeda In a historic moment for South India, the region's first Peace Pagoda was officially inaugurated on February ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

Armed with anecdotes, historical evidence, maps and slides, the author-historian outlined India's ancient soft power in his ...

Director Hindol Sengupta has documented Kushok Bakula’s legacy, including his diplomatic and spiritual achievements, in the ...

The festival, which drew an enthusiastic response from monks, nuns, students, and film aficionados, aimed to highlight how ...

Drawing a comparison of art and paintings commissioned by the Lord Buddha, 2,500 years ago, with the medium of cinema, Ven Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director of Tibet House highlighted that visual art had ...

The 14th Dalai Lama has declared that his reincarnated successor will be born in the "free world," implying outside China, in a new book released days after Beijing officials lashed out at the exiled ...

“If you look at the map of the influence of Buddhism, you have its origins in places like Lumbini ... and Central Asia, reaching China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. It moves down to Vietnam, Laos, ...