India has dismissed the controversy over the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, saying External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's remarks on him were about "our shared Buddhist heritage" and there's "no doubt ...

Gautama Buddha, born in Lumbini, Nepal, in the 6th century BCE, was a spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism. Renouncing a life of luxury, he sought enlightenment and later shared profound teachings ...

A non-Buddhist’s trip to Lumbini, Nepal, raises the question: what compels travellers to visit centres of faiths that are not their own? Scattered across Asia, from India to South Korea, thousands of ...

(RNS) Next month, Nepal will circulate a new 100-rupee note with the imprint, “Lumbini: The Birthplace of Lord Buddha.” The note is part of the government’s most recent effort to correct the record.

History and mythology are simply two different lenses through which we understand the past - one grounded in fact, the other ...

ANAHEIM – When Buddha was born, about 2,500 years ago, sweet tea fell from the heavens and his mother dreamed of a white elephant by her side. Or so the legend goes. The Buddha, born as Prince ...

Dressed in pale pink, Elaine Wang walked slowly, solemnly down the center aisle of the Guang Ming Temple in Orlando. She carried in her hands delicate purple and white flowers, a gift to Buddha in a ...

As the birthplace of the Buddha, Lumbini is among the four holy sites that pilgrims from the world over travel to during their lifetime. But the nativity site in Nepal is in a sad state, and needs to ...