This is the final installment of a three-part review of “Buddha.” Siddhatta Gotama, born in northern India around 500 BCE, ...

The Buddha Dhamma, or Buddhist teachings, has continued to play an evolving role in the lives of individuals and societies around the world, adapting to the needs of each new era and culture it ...

The London Buddhist Vihara goes back to 1955, and before that to the period 1926 to 1939, having been founded by Don David Hewavitarne (1864–1933), who took the title Anagarika Dharmapala. He was a ...

The Dhammapada, possibly the most popular and best-known of all Buddhist texts, sums up ""in the simplest language the core teachings of the Buddha,"" as Jack Kornfield writes in the foreword.

LEH: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday led thousands of Buddhists to celebrate the return of the mortal remains of Lord Buddha to, what he called, the “living land of Dhamma”. With the holy bone ...

President Maithripala Sirisena today stressed the need to build a stronger economy, a balanced legal system and restore peace among the various communities living in Sri Lanka and resolve global ...

The month of March holds special significance in the life and literary struggles of Mooloor Padmanabha Panicker (1869-1931). Just as the birth, enlightenment and Parinibbana of the Buddha all fall in ...

The three Buddhist-dominated regions of Russia - Buryatia, Kalmykia, and Tuva together constitute the 'Golden Triangle' also referred to as the 'Holy Triangle' of Buddha Dhamma in Russia. The ...

Buddha Dhamma does not seek to propagate any political ideology. Its primary purpose is the liberation of individuals from pervasive suffering, as enunciated in the Four Noble Truths. The Buddha saw ...