Buddhism, which was born in the Gangetic plains around 2,500 years ago, has won over the world with its ideology of compassion and commensality| India News ...
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Why Buddhism and Islam stopped Christianity in Asia
Christianity reached Asia early and even gained ground in China and Japan, but it never became dominant because it faced powerful rival religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and especially Islam. Unlike ...
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The king who spread a religion: How Ashoka the Great defined the future of Buddhism
The Great King Ashoka's relentless quest for the revered relic - "The Ashes of the Buddha" - marked the genesis of his ...
For Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, the 2007 attack on a minibus in southern Thailand’s Yala province – in which suspected Muslim militants shot eight Buddhists through the head in broad daylight – was ...
Why do people choose a particular religion? Raised Catholic, Pierrick Wattez, 49, found his path to Buddhism through the ...
Author Amitav Ghosh speaks about metempsychosis—the idea of the transmigration of souls into any life form—one of the key ...
Nichiren Buddhism differs from other schools of Buddhism in focusing on this world, and in its view that it is the only correct tradition. Nichiren Buddhism is a Japanese Buddhist movement in the ...
Nonviolence is one of the basic tenets of Buddhism. But in Japan, where the religion developed without the code of conduct devised by the historical Buddha to preserve order among the community of ...
Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...
I have been studying the social dynamics of ancient Buddhism for decades now. This religion has irrevocably shaped the shared history and social structures of this subcontinent in ways we haven’t yet ...
The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. Zen Buddhism is a mixture of Indian ...
New South Wales public schools are struggling to keep up with demand for Buddhism scripture teachers. Buddhist Council of New South Wales chairman Brian White said there were more than 3,000 public ...
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