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 ...

Very Indian looking deities and apsaras seen floating over the Buddhist temples of China tell the ... ideas were soon being transmitted through Afghanistan, through Bamiyan to China, where by ...

William Dalrymple has spent decades writing about history, but he’s discovered that an even bigger audience wants to hear him ...

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 ...

It was found in a temple dedicated to the goddess Isis ... He stated that the nation's most successful export was the spread of Buddhism, while drawing attention to the Anuradhapura stupas that was ...

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