When Emperor Ming saw the Buddha in a dream, he sent a mission to India, triggering a chain of events that led to Buddhism’s rise in China.

Like Emperors Asoka and Kanishka, the Palas also ruled over vast areas of North India over 400 years, albeit with varying ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World' is a laudable account on how Ancient India shaped the world civilisation ...

Religious persecution often fades from public view unless it fits a political agenda. Yet Christians worldwide continue to ...

Much of the craggy landscape is blanketed in deep pine forests, and the countryside is home to Buddhist temples, rolling hills ... Algeria was about as aspirational as Afghanistan is today. Islamists ...

The Tibetan Buddhist community in Minnesota recently celebrated a special spiritual milestone—honoring 18-year-old Jalue ...

Jalue Dorje has spent much of his life training to become a monk, memorizing sacred scriptures, learning Buddha's teachings ...

Jalue Dorje grew up like a typical American teen playing football and listening to rap music in a Minneapolis suburb. After ...

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...

Rosedale St. The Buddhist monastery center’s zoning will change from “E” neighborhood commercial/“B” two-family housing to planned development zoning with certain community facility uses.

ISANTI, Minn. (AP) — The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, ...