The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C.

Last week, Bir, a quaint village in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh was the meeting point of the world's leading Tibetan-English translators. The agenda was to save Buddhist culture by initiating ...

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Buddhism promotes the belief that, through meditation, a person can break free from the endless cycle of rebirth to attain nirvana, or enlightenment. As a religion with roots in India and which, over ...