The three-day event, that featured everyone from members of the Himalayan nation’s royal family and Nobel laureates to CEOs, ...

More than 2,000 people have taken part in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha, lent by China, to a shrine in the ...

Historian William Dalrymple discusses India and China's historical significance, soft power, and contributions to the world ...

Charles Dickens wrote his novel ‘Great Expectations’ in 1860s & Karl Marx foresaw a socialist development course known as ...

By IfrahThe recent spate of attacks on religious minorities, their temples including ISKCON and other Sufi Shrines in Bangladesh has unveiled a growing crisis that threatens the country’s religious ...

The 19th International Tipitaka Chanting Ceremony, featuring Buddha teachings in Pali, commenced in Bodh Gaya on December 2, ...

Plans for an Orthodox church in Myanmar’s commercial capital are a sign of deepening ties between the junta and Vladimir ...

In the Theravada form of Buddhism followed in Southeast Asia, Gautama’s enlightenment is commemorated along with his birth ...

An expansive exhibition at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum brings together Asian bronze works spanning 4,000 years of history.

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Malaysian media, telecoms and oil mogul Anada T Krishnan has died at age 86, his companies reported on Thursday.

Human rights activists accused Communist-run Vietnam of infringing on freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to five ethnically Khmer Buddhist monks and four religious ...