The accounts of the Chinese pilgrims Fa-hien (5th century CE) and Xuanzang (7th century CE) confirm that Bodh Gaya is the fundamental site of Buddhism’s origins in India because it is where Gautama ...

Mumbai police recovered a stolen panchdhatu Buddha idol within 24 hours, arresting two suspects linked to the theft from a ...

BUT now we must go back three centuries in our story to tell of a great teacher who came near to revolutionizing the religious thought and feeling of all Asia. This was Gautama Buddha, who taught his ...

Twenty six centuries ago, an unprecedented and extraordinary epoch was dawn in our human history which a multitude of people still respectfully commemorate and spiritually celebrate, not blindly but ...

Huston Smith evocatively dramatizes the moment of the Buddha's awakening from his deep meditative state under the Bodhi tree. Gautama is asked whether he is a god incarnate, an angel or a great sage. ...

In the time of Gautama Buddha, there was a blind scholar in a village. He was very learned but would often get into arguments ...

Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti is the most significant festival observed in honour of the birth of Gautama Buddha. Also known as Vesak for falling in the “Baisakh” or the “Vaisakha” month, the big ...

Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to ...