Siddhartha Gautama, best known as the Buddha (the enlightened one), lived some 500 years before Jesus Christ. Born into ...

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Statues of the Buddha unearthed in central China are leading to new interpretations of the early history of Buddhism in the country. While excavating a late Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25–220) family ...

The Peepal tree is famously known as the Bodhi Tree. Learn why the Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa), or Peepal, is called the ...

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Buddha in the bush and a thousand miles from care, the quiet rural location south of Dubbo, seems the most unlikely spot for ...

We’re looking back on 2025 with reprints of some of the best stories of the year. In Robin Wharton’s review: ‘Siddhartha, She ...

Gen Z’s call to step out of one’s digital bubble and experience the world as it is, echoes the Buddha’s awakening beyond his palace of illusions ...