The idea of God has been a constant source of debate and conflict throughout the world. The existence versus non-existence of God and all things related to him is a question that has baffled and ...

Wesak (or Vesak) is the annual (well not exactly annual since there is no Wesak in 2020) birthday celebration of Siddhartha Gautama, the first and best of all Buddhas who lived from the sixth to the ...

A Buddha statue dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries is carved from a rare iron meteorite. It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue ...

Aside from the purely visual pleasures they provide, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new Chinese, Indian and Southeast Asian galleries constitute an invitation to learn about Hinduism and Buddhism, the ...

Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what motherhood means in different religions and cultures. As a scholar of Buddhism and gender, I know how complicated Buddhist attitudes toward ...

HOMECOMING: The 12th century Uma Maheswar stele from Tangal Hiti, Patan, stolen in early 1980s. In Yatkha Tole, Krishna Bahadur Tuladhar, 62 shows Nepali Times a brass crown belonging to the Standing ...

I never bought into the chic spiritualism one heard and saw everywhere in the 60’s; I was always more in I never bought into the chic spiritualism one heard and saw everywhere in the 60’s; I was ...

One more note - in China, very few people are exclusively one religion or another. If someone actually says they're only a Buddhist in China, they're probably in religious orders as a monk or a nun.

HONG KONG — A set of 1,400-year-old Buddha statues in southwest China was damaged by villagers who painted them with bright colors to “redeem a wish to the god,” officials said. Located in rural ...