On the occasion of Buddha Purnima in 2023, Oriental Painting Study Group (OPSG) and Alliance Française de Dhaka organised an art exhibition titled From Suffering to Liberation: Buddha of Bengal ...

The faithful have no use for facts and figures or history and geography says DEVDUTT PATTANAIKWhen the British came to India they found Hindu practices very confusing They came from a very different r ...

The agitation by Buddhist monks to restore their sacred place is one example of opposition to Brahminisation and imposition ...

Banks remain open across most Indian states on June 11, 2025, despite regional closures in Shimla and Sikkim for Sant Guru ...

Xiem Can Pagoda in Bac Lieu Province has stood for more than 100 years, with every structure on its grounds meticulously ...

Banks in some states will be closed for Sant Guru Kabir Jayanti and Saga Dawa festival, as per the RBI holiday calendar. While these are regional holidays, banks in other states and union territories ...

The Big Buddha looks out over it all ... his death and achievement of nirvana. From the sixth floor, visitors will have earned the honor of looking through the windows of his eyes.

In the second calendar year of the third millennium of our Common Era, that is in 2001, our world witnessed two acts of destruction which have, since then, set the trajectory of global politics, ...

Achieving nibbana (nirvana) is the final stage of life in Buddhist teachings ... The term parinibbana is specifically used to refer to the death of the Buddha. One cannot concur with the idea that ...

Buddha Day is a significant Buddhist festival that commemorates the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and his compassionate state of nirvana. Buddha Day is observed on the full moon day of the sixth ...

We are living in strange times where religion is being blatantly used in pursuit of a political agenda. The Buddha temple is ...

Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Stories of merchants are notably absent in Brahmin scriptures but are widespread in Buddhist scriptures. Shortly after the Buddha attained Nirvana, he was met ...