Let’s be honest. We’re all chasing something. A new phone, a better body, a raise, a little more love, a little more ...

Bodh Gaya is located in the Indian state of Bihar, is widely known as the “Land of Enlightenment”. It holds immense spiritual ...

What does the Buddha mean in a world riven by wars and fissures? More than 2500 years after he preached his eight-fold path, does his example matter to a world divided by multiple human-made ...

The Mathura school grew in Uttar Pradesh and carved a confident, rooted Indian image of the Buddha. Artists used local red ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Takashi Miyaji of the Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church in Union City, Calif., about Bodhi Day on December 8. These winter holidays are a time for fellowship, joy and, for ...

For the kids performing in the Marsh Youth Theater's latest production, the experience ended up being more than a lesson in acting and stage production. In their ...

(UNDATED) The traditional Buddha _ which is actually a word meaning “The Enlightened One” rather than the name of a person _ lived about 2,500 years ago on what is now the Indian-Nepalese border, ...

The first impression I get of “Buddha” –the Enlightened One—is one who has relatively easily reached high spiritual status and that is because we all know him after he attained Nirvana (a state of ...

In the ruins of a Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan, archaeologists have uncovered a stone statue that seems to depict the prince Siddhartha before he founded Buddhism. The stone statue, or stele, was ...

MID-DAY: How did the idea of writing a book on this intriguing and interesting phase of The Buddha’s life emerge? ADVAIT KOTTARY: THE idea for this book really grew out of my own personal questions — ...