NEW DELHI (ANI) – The vast mosaic of Indian culture has long been shaped by the spiritual, the philosophical, and the transcendent. Yet, few forces have been as profoundly influential as Buddhism, an ...

Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology instead of coercion or violence.

A copper plate that was recovered by British archaeologists in the nineteenth century, around six miles from the spot, bore an inscription about the monastery being present in the area and monks and ...

GUJARAT, India (RNS) — In western India, where thousands of monks once worshipped in caves chiseled into the rocky hills, a fight is on to keep Hindu chauvinists from erasing a 2,000-year-old Buddhist ...

Although Buddhists form only a small minority in modern India, the significance of India as the spiritual homeland for both Buddhism and Buddhists cannot be overemphasized. (The Buddha himself, who ...

Buddhist Temples In India: India is the birthplace of Buddhism. This is the birthplace of Lord Gautam Buddha, as well as Lord Buddha attained enlightenment and preached here. Temples and monasteries ...

NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Four survivors of a brutal 2016 beating at the hands of India’s so-called cow protectors converted to Buddhism this week in a high-profile ceremony recalling one of the ...

LHASA, (ANI) – Indian -Tibetan ties go back to the 7th Century when Buddhism was introduced to Tibet. To preserve and propagate the Buddhism Dharma, Tibet sent many of its people to India to study ...

Kanti Sarvaiya left his Hindu heritage behind and became a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western Indian state of Gujarat. “So our family elders have ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began a ...