A Buddhist leader in the Tai province of Chiang Rai has announced plans for a new set of guidelines to curb the behaviour of homosexual and transgender monks. More...

image The question that Indian Muslims should ask themselves now is simple: Who are we? Among the 120 millions of Muslims in India, only a tiny percentage descends from...

Wrapped in red silk and adorned with red flowers in her hair, Matani Shakya received approval from the priests and President Ram Baran Yadav in a centuries-old...

An online discussion prompted me to write on religion. Since religion is the hot debate around the world today and like politics people seem to form opinions based on...

Christian Thomas Kohl Buddhism and Quantum Physics A strange parallelism of two concepts of reality Abstract. Rudyard Kipling, the famous english author of « The...

The Japanese have long taken an easygoing, buffetlike approach to religion, ringing out the old year at Buddhist temples and welcoming the new year, several hours...

Across Japan, Buddhism faces a confluence of problems, some familiar to religions in other wealthy nations, others unique to the faith here. While interest in Buddhism...

China reiterates that it had ruled Tibet for centuries but Tibetans say their country was independent during that era. According to a latest report by Human Rights...

What is Zen? The word Zen comes from Sanskrit dhyana (meditative absorption), which was translated into ch’an in Chinese, then into zenna, or Zen in Japanese. This...

I had my eyes opened to Indian culture by a wonderful novel “Shantaram” written by gifted Australian author Gregory David Roberts (who now lives in Mumbai,...

Other then the race for being the next superpower, India and China are engaged in another competition also, that is for the ownership of world’s oldest religion,...

Dalit conversions on mass-scale do take place occasionally in India. It happened on Sunday again in Mumbai. This is being said as the biggest mass conversion in modern...

During the SAARC summit, the member countries had decided to develop and promote tourism among member countries. Now, India has decided to develop Buddhism as a big...

If a Hindu wants to embrace Buddhism or Jainism in Gujarat and vice versa, There is no need to get government permission now. The law says this is not exactly the...