As Bhutan embarks on her ambitious journey of creating a “Mindfulness City,” what will ensure the success of such a city? The answer lies not merely in the architecture, green spaces, advanced infrastructure or people, but in its inhabitants’ mindset or cultivation of mind.
The tree is known by its fruits. Buddhism put reason in place of authority, it discarded metaphysical speculation to make room for the practical realities of life, it raised the self-perfected sage to the position of the gods of theology, it set up a spiritual brotherhood in place of hereditary priesthood, it infused a cosmopolitan spirit against national exclusiveness.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday said that the Buddhists in the Chinese occupied Tibet are living through difficult…
The day-long conference, attended by about 600 delegates, is also being seen as an attempt to give a strong push to Himalayan Buddhism.
As part of its soft power projection, the government is working to a strategy which invokes Buddhism, sometimes referred to as the country’s most significant export.
There was a time I travelled often. I still travel, but off and on. Earlier, I travelled regularly, frequently, and…
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday praised the seventeen pandits (priests) of Nalanda for their logical way of teaching…
In a recent statement from New York, the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (OTD), regarded as the most influential Tibetan…
The family infamously flogged by cow vigilantes for skinning a dead bovine in 2016 today led nearly 300 Dalits who…
In his monthly radio programme, Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi said that Buddha Purnima is a special day for every Indian. We must be proud of the fact that India is the birthplace of Lord Buddha
