Buddhism as a Cultural Ambassador Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology ...

Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist ...

Sravasti Abbey will resume its weekly teachings in Spokane on Beginning Buddhism, starting March 19. The class meets ...

The discovery of 2-metre-long Buddha heads with intact features in Ratnagiri establishes that Buddhism was the predominant ...

Buddhism is practiced in various parts of the world and the Ancient Greeks played a significant role in the mission of ...

China labels the Dalai Lama a “separatist” and asserts that it will select his successor. However, the 89-year-old has stated ...

Nearly 200,000 Christians gathered in a village in Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern Indian state, to protest the impending ...

Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...

It was not until 1815 with the signing of the Kandyan Convention that Britain gained power over the island. The advantages of ...

Thus began the tradition of building stupas and funding Buddhist activities, earning merchants good karma and, consequently, good fortune, effectively transforming Buddhism into a form of prosperity ...

A Vajrayana Buddhist monk of French heritage and a PhD in genetics, Matthieu Ricard is the author of ‘Notebooks of a ...