The programme will include a Dhamma talk on the significance of Ashadha Purnima by His Holiness 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa and a Special Address by Minister of Culture and External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi, it said.
After being buried in the Earth for 2,300 years, an ancient sentinel, a stone guardian Elephant carved from a single piece of rock, stands once again under the open skies in the lush and fertile valley of Daya River in Odisha. It served as a steadfast witness to the Buddhist community that p
A community of Tibetan Muslims is thriving in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar. Most of the Tibetan refugees, after fleeing to India six decades ago, have lived and practiced their Buddhist faith at this place, situated a few hundred kilometres from Dharamshala, Voice of Ame
The Nagi Gompa mountaintop abbey is a sanctuary of spiritual awakening on the outskirts of Kathmandu where a powerful tradition known as Chod Cham has been practised for centuries, Bhutan Live reported.
Sarnath, 10km from Varanasi, is one of the most revered Buddhist pilgrimage centres. It is believed that after attaining Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, it was here that Lord Buddha preached his first sermon, sanctified as Maha Dharm Chakra Parivartan.
On the occasion of Buddha Shakyamuni's Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana Day, Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama gave a teaching on Geshe Langri Thangpa's eigh Verses of Mind Training and also conducted the ceremony for generating Bodhichitta at the Main Tibetan Temple Tsuglhakh
The long-awaited Hindi translations of five classical Tibetan Buddhist texts, first obtained from Tibet by famous author Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) for India, are now set for printing, according to Bhutan Live.
Holding a placard outside the G7 International Media Centre in Hiroshima, Toyoshige Sekiguchi urged the world leaders for shunning the use of nuclear weapons.