About a thousand of these Buddhist caves are known in India today, ranging from huge, elaborate clusters of multiple caverns to tiny grottoes too small to be found on a map. The caves functioned ...

Karla and Bhaja Caves Situated near Lonavala, the Bhaja Caves date back to the Hinayana phase of Buddhism (2nd to 1st century ...

When Nicolaus Schmidt first travelled to India in 2011, as part of another project, he found himself stopping over at the Karla Caves near Lonavala, Maharashtra. “It was really magic,” says ...

Two-dozen previously unrecorded Buddhist caves have been found in the Tala range of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the Archaeological Survey of India reported last week. The caves date back to the ...