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The Milindapañha recounts the Socratic-like dialogue of an Indo-Greek king, Menander, and his conversion. Could it be true?
The Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (GEBIS) and one of its monks have been ordered to pay a total of $110,000 in fines following an occupational health and safety investigation ...
Dozens of monks were seen riding an escalator at an airport for their annual pilgrimage. More than 100 Thai clerics were ...
The Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (GEBIS) and one of its monks have been ordered to pay a total of $110,000 in fines following an occupational health and safety investigation into the ...
Shaji N Karun’s films, from Piravi to Olu, portrayed the quiet tragedies of ordinary lives caught in the machinery of state ...
He maintains that he is not a monk or teacher and that he doesn’t carry the name “Thich”, which he says belongs to Buddha. He also says he is not part of the Vietnam Buddhist Association and ...
The lanterns can be in the shape of Buddha sculptures, dragons, elephants, lotus flowers and phoenixes, lighting up the streets of Seoul at night. Smaller lanterns are carried by monks and ...
In bygone days, people in Thailand risked being immersed in a caldron of boiling water as punishment for striking Buddhist monks and animals. Thailand is home to at least 83 Buddhist temples with ...