Tibetan Buddhist monks performed the traditional Cham (lama dance) at the Tsechu Fair in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, to commemorate the birth anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava, revered as the founder of ...

A Vajrayana Buddhist monk of French heritage and a PhD in genetics, Matthieu Ricard is the author of ‘Notebooks of a ...

Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the ...

The first phase of 200 years belonged to Mahayana Buddhism and the rest saw Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. It is believed that Vajrayana Buddhism from Ratnagiri migrated to Southeast Asian ...

Buddhism is the most ancient religion originating in India, advocating non-violence, self-discipline, and liberation from the cycle of birth and death. It emphasizes the Four Noble Truths, the ...

Mao and the monarch: King Mahendra with Mao Zedong in Beijing during the king's state visit to China in 1967. Till about 200 ...

From the excavated shrine complex, hundreds of monolithic votive stupas and structural stupas, as well as numerous idols of Buddhist deities related to Vajrayana Buddhism, have been found.

Gelephu—In a significant turning point for both the spiritual and economic landscape of the region, Gelephu is emerging as a ...

On December 1st, 2024, archaeologists unearthed the remnants of history that still lay hidden beneath the surface at Ratnagiri in Odisha’s Jajpur district. They unearthed the relics of a breathtaking ...