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

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December 8 is celebrated as #BodhiDay in #Buddhism - a day that honors the moment Siddhartha Gautama awakened to profound ...

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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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Cyclone Ditwah was a tropical cyclone that formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought heavy rains and strong winds to Sri Lanka ...

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