India, July 18 -- Siddhartha Gautama, more commonly called Gautama Buddha is revered worldwide as the founder of Buddhism ...

Research on Buddhism, and Buddhist monuments in India has a long history, and yet information on these monuments is invariably scattered across numerous books on selected sites or monuments, lost in ...

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 ...

Born some time around the early 4th century B.C., Siddhārtha Gautama was a Nepalese monk and wandering sage whose teachings went on to underpin Buddhism. As Buddhism spread, pictorial representations ...

Buddhism has been uniquely affected by the digital revolution and integration of new media into its spiritual practices. Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus offers a ...

Ideas related to the Buddha and his legacy started reaching the West sporadically, in fragments, around the 13th and 14th centuries. Marco Polo, the famous Venetian merchant and traveller who stayed ...

It is only in the last few pages of An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World that Pankaj Mishra directly addresses the concerns of his title, and here the “world” is defined as the spectacle of ...

The story of how Buddhism set down its roots in India is enshrined within ancient stupas, temples, monasteries and caves – the silent sentinels of this enduring faith. Casting the Buddha takes the ...