Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

Buddha did come to see her — and a mural at Ajanta Caves has represented this scene. Later, Rahula became a monk and Yashodhara entered the Sangha too as a nun, along with the 500 women who had ...

The Dafo Temple, or Giant Buddha Temple in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province, is renowned for housing Asia's largest reclining Buddha statue, made in 1098 during the Xixia regime (1038-1227).

Click on the 'Speaker' icon on the photo above to listen to the SBS Sinhala Radio interview with the lyrist of this trilogy, Dr. Mahendra Samarawickrama from Sydney. SBS Sinhala ‘My song ...