The Mogao Caves in the desert of northwest China tell a story of art and Buddhism that began more than 1,500 years ago. Today, Princeton scholars are playing a key role as part of an international ...
The Library of Congress made public a rare 2,000-year-old text of early Buddhism on Monday, and it offers a glimpse into early Buddhist history during its formative years. The scroll originated in ...
In Thailand, a crew digging beneath a Buddha statue at a Buddhist temple stumbled upon stunning 1,300-year-old gold treasures ...
A look at how Buddhism has spread in Britain and its unique British shape. According to the 2001 census there are 151,816 Buddhists in Britain. However, that does not take into account those who ...
The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant workers in the early 1850s.who had come to the U.S. to work in the mining and ...
For the first time in US history, the celebration of the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha (Vesak), was held in the White House today. In honor of Vesak, an official statement from ...
Excavated after a gap of 6 decades, the Ratnagiri site has revealed three colossal Buddha heads, hundreds of votive stupas, stone inscriptions and images of Buddhist gods and goddesses, all within a ...
In a context when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been emphasizing how Buddha’s teachings could offer solutions to greatest challenges confronting the modern world, a book on Buddha which is set to ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Restoring Afghanistan's Buddhist artifacts that were destroyed by the Taliban 18 years ago is like working on a 1,500-year-old jigsaw puzzle, say conservators working on the latest ...