Buddha Purnima, a significant Buddhist festival, is celebrated on the full moon of Vaisakha, commemorating Buddha's birth, ...

Buddhists in Southeast Asia are marking one of the holiest days in their calendar; the day on which the Lord Buddha was born.

Especially among the Muslims living in the South East Asia like Pakistan India and Myanmar there is a common practice of writing 786 while starting anything in written They too mention this number in ...

The Fine Arts Department in Thailand has announced a remarkable archaeological discovery at a major Buddhist site in ...

A gentle-faced giant Buddha statue with "sunglasses" in this central Japan city, north of Nagoya, has become a popular ...

Another phenomenon inadvertently revealed by the fact of the sale is the ongoing commercialisation of Buddhism in the west.

The first Asian American immigrants landed in Seattle in the 1860s, just a decade after the city’s founding in 1852. Seattle ...

An ancient Buddha statue measuring 1.7 meters in height was unearthed at an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Pyongan Province, North Korea, according to Popular Mechanics. The discovery ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan ... to transfer the relic following a 100-day ceremony through Buddha’s Birthday on May 5 that included public viewing of the ...

The relic is believed by devotees to be a tooth of the Buddha. Nearly 450,000 pilgrims – more than double the expected number – lined up for a rare public display of the relic on 23 April.

(AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama ...