A reporter’s essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia. By Aatish Taseer The T writer at large Aatish Taseer spent some ...

Buddha Purnima 2026, commemorating Gautam Buddha's 2588th birth anniversary, is observed on May 1st. This significant Hindu festival marks the birth, enlightenment, and passing of Lord Buddha, ...

The teaching founded by the Buddha is known, in English, as Buddhism. It may be asked, who is the Buddha? A Buddha is one who has attained Bodhi; and by Bodhi is meant wisdom, an ideal state of ...

Buddha Purnima, also known as Vesak, is one of the most sacred festivals in Buddhism. It marks the birth, enlightenment, and Mahaparinirvana (death) of Lord Gautama Buddha, making it a spiritually ...

The historical Buddha is largely an artefact of 19th-century European scholarship rather than a recovered fact, as per ...

The item was excavated last March but has only been receiving wide attention in the last month: the two-foot-tall image of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, carved from Anatolian marble, in ...

Buddha Purnima, also known as Vesak or Buddha Jayanti, is a sacred day in the Buddhist calendar commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. It ...