Map by Daniel Wagner FOR THE FIRST six centuries after his death, the Buddha was never depicted in human form. He was only ever represented aniconically by a sacred synecdoche — his footprints ...

Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs ...

Previous archaeological discoveries in China have also revealed human remains with inscriptions that claim that they belong to the Buddha the archaeologists noted. These include a skull bone ...

Lord Gautama Buddha induced human-beings to know his reality. He did not permit concealment of innumerable evils that emerge from policy of non-equality.

Hari Budha Magar made history by becoming the first double amputee above the knee to scale Mount Everest. He descended from the peak of the mountain on Tuesday and announced that he had “cried ...