Every inch of the "Cosmic Buddha" is filled with intricate relief carvings that depict a “conceptual map” of Buddhism’s Six Realms of Existence, from the heavenly realm of the devas at the ...

These monasteries are situated in the environs outside the limits of this map. They are not now, as they formerly were, the refuges of asceticism, but are schools for the teaching of Buddhist ...

Kolkata: Work on preparing a first-ever map identifying Buddhist sites situated across India and seven ASEAN nations with detailed information is underway.

Kranti, who photographed the site and its antiquities between 2010 and 2013, said this exhibition is a small contribution to promoting Ambaran once again on the International Buddhist map.

BHUBANESWAR: With the 13th Finance Commission grant of ` 65 crore, the Culture Department has drawn up a road map to develop the various Buddhist sites in the State. An amount of Rs 12 crore has ...

By the time the latest of these single-figure icons was made in the late fifth to sixth century C.E., the map of Buddhism was changing. By then the religion was widespread in Southeast Asia and China.

Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old ...