The first ruler of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, King Rama Thibodi, made two important contributions to Thai history: the establishment and promotion of Theravada Buddhism as the official religion (to ...

An unavoidable fact of existence according to the first Noble Truth of Buddhism. means suffering. It is the idea that everything leads to suffering and therefore unsatisfactoriness. Buddhists ...

The first traces of Buddhist art were produced in India during the first century B.C.E. Buddhist missionaries transported doctrines from India along the Silk Road (through the Karakorum and Hindu Kush ...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s Buddhist history hasn’t got much attention ... Buddhaguptanatha may have been the first Tamil Buddhist to travel this widely, said 63-year-old independent Buddhist ...

Because of what I knew of the Buddhist tradition in Vietnam ... And that was the beginning of the end of American support for the Ngo Dinh Diem regime.

A set of documents from more than a thousand years ago that depict the history of cultural exchanges ... on May 24 approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891) for inclusion.

to this violent period of history. Where Mozi suggested a stronger political structure, Laozi recommended ‘non-action’. Our travel will next take us to south Asia, at the beginning of Buddhism.