Kathmandu is all set for Buddha Purnima

Thousands of tourists flock to Madhya Pradesh every year to see the erotic sculptures of Khajuraho, the Buddhist stupas at Sanchi and the Bhimbetka rock shelters, but more often than not, lack of accurate information plays spoilsport.

An air-conditioned Volvo bus carrying Sri Lankan Buddhist monks parked near Kesariya Buddhist stupa, 60 km south from here in East Champaran district caught fire due to short circuit of the AC and was reduced to ashes on Sunday noon.

Muqaddam KhanSWABI: Prof Dr Naeem Qazi, Archaeology and Museums Departments Peshawar, said on Tuesday that more excavations be carried out in the rich archaeological site of Aziz Dheri.The department in cooperation with the University of Peshawar ...

Terri Dunbar-Curran HISTORIAN Charles Allen finds exploring India and discovering ancient sites that have been all but forgotten, exhilarating. "The biggest thrill I get is when I leave the road and ask some villagers where a certain place, temple ...

Satavahana era inscription shifted to Archaeology museum and placed in Karimnagar. (Right) The Buddist stupa, which was brought from Pashigam a few years ago, is currently at the Archaeology Museum in Karimnagar town. | EPS Archeology department ...

THE China Institute Gallery has been transformed into an ancient cave, taking visitors back more than a millennium to a dazzling world where Buddhist worshippers adorned the walls with colorful frescoes, silk prayer banners and lavishly painted ...

Gangtok, April 23: Actor Richard Gere is in Sikkim on a five-day tour of Buddhist monasteries and to deliver a talk on the faith. The star of Pretty Woman and Chicago has been the practitioner of the Gelgupa school of Tibetan Buddhism for over a ...

MERVYN Croft turned his back on a lucrative career in IT to study and teach meditation and Buddhism. He runs the Emoyeni Retreat Centre in Magaliesberg, and says the ancient philosophy has much to teach the business world. What was your earliest ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- On the morning of Feb. 13, Drupchen Tsering, a Buddhist monk from Tibet, walked out of a restaurant here in Nepal's capital, dripping with gasoline. In front of the Bouddhanath Stupa, one of the holiest Buddhist shrines in the ...