Gaudapada, the paramguru or grand preceptor of the Shankaracharya and the first one in the guru-shishya succession, proposed a radical concept that significantly influenced the path of Indian philosop...

This was not established solely as a place of worship in the beginning, but as the Burma Buddhist Dharamsala by U San Min, who reportedly bought the building for Rs 47,000 in 1928. Now, the ground flo...

Rangan Datta is a mathematics and management teacher by profession and a travel writer and photographer by passion. He has been addicted to discovering off-beat places since his undergraduate day...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba on Monday laid the foundation stone for the India International Centre for Buddhist Culture and Heritage in the Lumb...

An interfaith iftar to know, respect and stand in support of each other was held at the Bishop’s House on Friday evening with representatives of various religions. Interfaith programmes promote...

Writing in the 1980s about the ethnic conflict in his home country, the Sri Lankan anthropologist, S.J. Tambiah, described the Sinhalese as a “majority with a minority complex”. The Sinhal...

Two central universities have launched a first-of-its-kind master’s programme in “Hindu Studies” that projects the caste system as inclusive, seeks to counter “negative” ...

At this time of the year, in our homes, lamps of various colour, size and beauty are lit to dispel darkness. Also the skies are lit up with fireworks as Deepawali is celebrated around the world among ...

Odisha, which is rich in Buddhist culture and history, has been excluded from the Centre’s “Buddhist circuit” to boost tourism, prompting a minister in the Narendra Modi government t...

Reading the book gives one the impression that Heredia is making a sincere attempt “to bring a moral conscience to the social sciences, and scholarly rigor to social activism”. The author ...