Scottish historian William Dalrymple, who's now based in India, brought attention to the country's historical soft power and how it has influenced the world.

Diwali, also called Deepavali, is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists in India and around the world. People mark ...

( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a two-day visit to Laos, witnessed an episode of ...

Pali’s role as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism has ensured its continued study and use in countries such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. Pali Impacted the languages ...

Pali’s role as the liturgical language of Theravāda Buddhism has ensured its continued study and use in countries such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. Pali Impacted the languages ...

as well as Ashoka’s pillar, on which he read the inscribed message. Guide Ravi Dwivedi informed the Prime Minister that Buddha-era creepers, flowers, and leaves have been engraved on the Dhamekh ...

Born in the sixth or fifth century BC, the Buddha attained nirvana in Bodh Gaya (in India’s Bihar state today) and inspired the greatest emperor of ancient India, Ashoka, whose Mauryan empire ...

The Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry and judging truth are found in the Kalama Sutra of the Anguttara Nikaya. In Kalama Sutra Buddha emphasized the importance of critical thinking that involves seeing ...

These people have been Buddhists since the time of the Emperor Asoka (307 B.C.), who sent his sister and his son Mahinda, a Buddhist monk, to convert them. Much pious invention has gone into the ...

scenes depicting the spread of Buddhism by Emperor Ashoka, Gupta art, Vikramaditya's court, ancient universities (Nalanda), Odisha sculptures, Nataraja, scenes from Mahabalipuram sculptures ...