The Dalai Lama's recent Ladakh visit emphasized India's crucial role in preserving authentic Buddhist learning and practice, ...

The sun rises over tall mountains in Ladakh as old temple bells ring through valleys that have heard prayers for hundreds of years. All across India, Buddhist temples stand like peaceful islands in ...

NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Four survivors of a brutal 2016 beating at the hands of India’s so-called cow protectors converted to Buddhism this week in a high-profile ceremony recalling one of ...

The influence of Buddhism extends to the very instruments used in Northeast India’s music. The Buddhist religious practice often involves the use of unique instruments, and these have found ...

VADNAGAR, India (RNS) — Is Indian Prime Minister Modi's interest in Buddhist antiquities genuine, or just a play for votes among his country's dispossessed?

Buddhist monks participate at the conference on Nalanda Buddhism at Gorsam Stupa in Zemithang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, April 17, 2023. Credit: Twitter/Pema Khandu Subscribe for ads-free reading ...

Buddhism flourished in the North-Western region of India in present day Pakistan from around 100 BC to 400 AD as amply evidenced by literary, archaeological and epigraphical evidence as well as unique ...

By K/Sunday Observer Colombo, September 29: It was Buddhism which brought writing to India. Prior to its advent, thought and knowledge wer ...

LHASA, (ANI) – Indian -Tibetan ties go back to the 7th Century when Buddhism was introduced to Tibet. To preserve and propagate the Buddhism Dharma, Tibet sent many of its people to India to ...

Mumbai, India – About 2,000 low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony Sunday that they said would bring them ...

One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began ...