NEW DELHI (ANI) – The vast mosaic of Indian culture has long been shaped by the spiritual, the philosophical, and the transcendent. Yet, few forces have been as profoundly influential as Buddhism, an ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Founded in India, Buddhism also found a fertile ground in Southeast Asia, where it took root and flourished for centuries, shaping the region’s socioeconomic, political, cultural, ...

Buddhist Temples In India: India is the birthplace of Buddhism. This is the birthplace of Lord Gautam Buddha, as well as Lord Buddha attained enlightenment and preached here. Temples and monasteries ...

Buddhist monks participate at the conference on Nalanda Buddhism at Gorsam Stupa in Zemithang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, April 17, 2023. Credit: Twitter/Pema Khandu Even as India and China continue to ...

While it can be seen as a project for the development of heritage and tourism infrastructure, it also contains aspects of cultural diplomacy ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new Buddhist Circuit scheme for six Northeastern states in the Union Budget 2026-27. This initiative aims to develop a planned network of Buddhist ...

India President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the “International Buddhist Conclave (IBC) 2018” in New Delhi on August 23. India President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the “International Buddhist Conclave ...

GUJARAT, India (RNS) — In western India, where thousands of monks once worshipped in caves chiseled into the rocky hills, a fight is on to keep Hindu chauvinists from erasing a 2,000-year-old Buddhist ...

Although Buddhists form only a small minority in modern India, the significance of India as the spiritual homeland for both Buddhism and Buddhists cannot be overemphasized. (The Buddha himself, who ...

In keeping with the longstanding camaraderie between India and Bhutan, Ugyen Dorji, the Home Minister of Bhutan, reacted to the International Buddhist Confederation hosting the first-ever two-day ...

NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Four survivors of a brutal 2016 beating at the hands of India’s so-called cow protectors converted to Buddhism this week in a high-profile ceremony recalling one of the ...