When today, people talk of Buddhism, they are stuck in the 19th century understanding of Buddhism, which is based on the translation of Pali scriptures, especially the Tripitaka and the Jataka tales.

Wesak (or Vesak) is the annual (well not exactly annual since there is no Wesak in 2020) birthday celebration of Siddhartha Gautama, the first and best of all Buddhas who lived from the sixth to the ...

Aside from the purely visual pleasures they provide, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new Chinese, Indian and Southeast Asian galleries constitute an invitation to learn about Hinduism and Buddhism, the ...

The new year brings a fresh start, symbolized in some cultures by the cherubic baby New Year who replaces the old year that has come to a close. In Japan, the roly-poly god Hotei, who is often ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity. They also see him as ...

Asura’s Wrath is an angry game based on an angry group of Buddhist demigods. In the game you play as Asura, a god stripped of all of his powers out to save his daughter from the seven gods that ...