What is a mandala? Sanskrit, for ''circle,'' a mandala is an image of a palace containing Buddhist iconography that is visualized during meditation or constructed with colored sand, usually by several ...

Adorned in bright red robes, the monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery rub metal tubes together as if they were trying to generate fire with sticks. Instead, sound and sand are produced with the scrapes ...

The lobby of the Houston Museum of Natural Science could be a difficult place to find everlasting peace — or any peace at all. Tour groups crowd the corridor; a television touts the upcoming IMAX film ...

The former Vice-Chancellor of Sanskrit University Mallepuram G. Venkatesh on Wednesday said that Karnataka had better contributed to the creation and spread of Buddhist literature as compared to the ...

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly invited several scholars to comment on the divisions and direction of Buddhism in America today: Carl Bielefeldt is professor of religious studies and co-director of the ...

Noting that examples of Buddhist literature and philosophy can be found in monasteries in many countries and in different languages, Modi said this body of works is a treasure of humankind Prime ...

Sri Lanka on Tuesday backed the Indian government’s creation of a new Union Territory of Ladakh, noting it would be the first Indian state with a Buddhist majority. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil ...