The yogi’s only biography was written by his disciple. An Australian scholar used the text to document his travels, revealing ...

A Monumental History of Buddhism in India” by Shashank Shekhar Sinha traces 2500 years of history of Buddha and Buddhism.

and not only thinking of the Buddha as a man who lived four, five hundred years before, and who has initiated a new way of looking at life." (Claudine Bautze-Pictron) This week in our history we ...

The 233-foot Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan, China, is the world's tallest Buddha statue, built in 713 B.C.E. to calm ...

My name is Hivin and I'm a Buddhist. I follow the teachings of the Buddha, who lived two and a half thousand years ago. He said that life was full of suffering and that suffering was caused by ...

Uncover the stories and history of the Leshan Giant Buddha, the world's largest stone Buddha, including legends, construction, and ongoing preservation.

Writer Johan Elverskog’s book, The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia, takes a critical look at the interconnections between the rise of Buddhism and its impact on the ...