Ashes believed to belong to Buddha were paraded through the streets in India. The sacred relics of Lord Buddha and his two disciples, Shariputra and Mahamoglan, were honoured in a grand procession in ...

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The earliest historical reference to people dying by suicide at the Sangam or confluence of the Yamuna and Ganga is by ...

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We first encountered Gananath in our first year at Peradeniya where he was a lecturer in English. He spoke and read out texts ...

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Article in KAPD's monthly Der Proletarier by F. Struggler, this text talks about the occultist and claimed clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner. Originally published in "Proletarier, May 1925".

As the famous setting of countless Kung Fu movies, the original Shaolin Temple of China was brought back from ...

Dr Sonia Verma The narratives of Draupadi and Chanakya provide compelling case studies on the cultural significance of hair manipulation in ancient India. Both figures, although from different ...