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ASI has discovered a Buddhist statue dating back to the 8th-9th century AD in Parbata Panasura village near Ratnagiri in Jajapur district. The Vajrasattva stone sculpture is made of Kondalat…

The Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Delhi chapter of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), will host the Sarnath Buddha relic exhibition in Vietnam for the first time…

Thousands of Buddhist devotees and festival-goers flocked to downtown Seoul for the Lotus Lantern Festival. Some participants wore traditional Korean Hanbok and held colorful lotus lanterns of various shapes. The…

Sri Lanka’s Christians joined Muslim and Hindu groups in assisting an estimated 1 million Buddhist pilgrims who waited long lines to see a rare tooth relic in the town of…

Tokyo, April 17 (Jiji) — UNESCO’s Executive Board on Thursday inscribed Buddhist scriptures preserved at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on the Memory of the World Register, making it the ninth…

On the evening of April 18, monks and worshippers chanted sutras to commemorate the founder of Chion-in Temple in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto. Chion-in Temple is the head temple of the…

The military junta has killed 11 people in a series of airstrikes on Buddhist monasteries during the New Year holiday, a time when people traditionally visit religious sites to perform…

Dharamsala: The Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration is pleased to announce that the Tibetan Buddhist Welfare Association of Korea will provide scholarships to three Tibetan refugee students to study…

Heero Hito, a Buddhist leader and advisor at India’s Subhāti Buddhist Institute, told The Korea Herald on Friday that India and South Korea must foster deeper academic, cultural and research…

People across Thailand poured water on Buddha statues at temples to mark the traditional start of the Thai New Year. The historic Songkran festival kicked off on Sunday amid concerns…