The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, taught that family ties were obstacles to enlightenment. However, his relationship ...

Hundreds of thousands of people who fled their homes in conflict-torn Myanmar are facing growing hardship following US aid ...

The traditional bathing of the Buddha and a long procession marked the start of Vesak 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City.

However, the monastic leaders in Southeast Asia, where Theravada Buddhism is practiced, decided that Mahayana nuns could not ordain Theravada nuns, leaving countries such as Thailand, Laos ...

Indeed, the Modi government’s policy of self-interest sans principled Foreign Policy seem to belie proclamations of the ‘neighbourhood first”, and have paid diminishing returns in the face of ...

The Vesak 2025 celebration at Borobudur Temple will run from 4 to 12 May, highlighted by the release of 2,569 lanterns.

The erosion of trust in democratic institutions - often fuelled by the very people who need it - is a challenge for any ...

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined Who went to see the Elephant Though all of them were blind That each by observation Might satisfy his mind That s how John Godfrey Saxe began his p ...