The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C.

Buddha had many things to teach us. Here is one of his most important and famous teachings. Buddha said that there are two things to remember in life: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone.

Last week, Bir, a quaint village in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh was the meeting point of the world's leading Tibetan-English translators. The agenda was to save Buddhist culture by initiating ...

The holy relics of the Buddha are considered sacred and serve as tangible connections to his inheritance. When these relics are taken abroad from India to a Buddhist country, it is indeed a ...

MIMS — It seems unlikely that this rural city of 7,000 would be full of surprises. But it is. Here you’ll find the Vietnamese White Sands Buddhist Center, and the three largest Buddha statues in ...

A newly discovered marble statue of the Buddha at a temple in Berenike on the red sea shows a connection between Egypt and India during the Roman Empire. The American-Polish archaeological mission ...

A statue of Buddha has been discovered in Egypt’s ancient seaport of Berenice on the Red Sea, shedding light on trade ties with India under the Roman empire. A Polish-US mission discovered the statue ...

In London, that foggy, busy, chilly, Christian city, Daya Hewaviarne, manager of the Mahā Bodhi Society, announced that there would soon be built a temple to Buddha, the God who squats in the stuffy ...

The world's largest sitting Buddha, located in southwest China's Sichuan Province, is suffering visible erosion caused by acid rain after receiving a facelift only four years ago, China Daily reported ...