The press release issued said Tamils must unite to fight against the dictatorial government bent on seizing Hindu Temples to build Buddhist Viharas. The Sri Lankan government has declared a religious ...

It started to blossom only in the 1980s. Buddhists need to look critically at the mushroom kovils” that are sprouting in the north and east. These trident-only” kovils are located inside Buddhist ...

Render for Wadi AlFann. Image © James Turrell. Courtesy of the Royal Commission for AlUla ...

alongside the reconstructed brick structures of Buddhist stupas, chaityas, and viharas from the Ikshwaku period (3rd century CE). These artefacts were relocated from Sriparvata-Vijayapuri ...

Shanghai, as one of China's most representative global cities, features an architectural vocabulary that seamlessly blends its distinctive "Haipai" (Shanghai style) urban character with an ...

The archaeological remains suggest that there could have been Buddhist temples, viharas, stupas and many residential structures there. The team found statues of various expressions of Buddha ...

They supported Buddhism, building many Stupas and Viharas (Buddhist structures ... contributing greatly to education, art, and architecture. The Nizam's wealth became legendary, and his ...

AN estimated 400 million pilgrims are expected to gather in the northern city of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh for the Maha Kumbh ...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s Buddhist history hasn’t got much attention from mainstream historians. But a new paper maps the widespread travels of a 16th-century Buddhist yogi from Rameswaram. He set out ...

Some are exhibited in museums in India and overseas. Some might have been sculpted in Nagapattinam and used for worship in viharas or Buddha temples. Such bronze sculptures found subsequently at ...