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In ‘Democracy’s Dhamma’, Gitanjali Surendran traces the history of buddhism in the South and South-east Asia and how it interacted with nationalism, modernity, caste and more.

Holding itself up as the sole defender of Burmese heritage, the military has long manipulated Buddhism for its political ...

Orthodoxy in Russia is increasingly characterised as a separate religion, which retains the formal aspect of Slavic-Eastern ...

An overview of how various religions view solar eclipses, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.

During the rule of the Palas, Buddhism experienced changes including the introduction of Tantricism. Different schools of ...

在中国西南南传上座部佛教流行的地区，村寨中一般都建有佛寺。过去，寺中均有僧侣常驻，佛爷和沙弥大多来自村寨，每家每户都会将五、六岁的男孩送到寺庙出家，一来可以跟随佛爷学习佛经、教规和傣文，二来出家也被信众视作善业，福泽个人和家庭。佛爷和沙弥的日常饮食用 ...

As he looked on old age, sickness, death and holiness, he determined to search for the real answers to the meaning of life. Could be used to introduce students to the story of the Siddhartha, the ...

The story of Buddhism is intricately woven with the mango. The fruit plays a crucial role in Jataka tales, which suggests how ...

Our fossil fuel age is a hiostorial blip. We're heading for Renewables 2.0, and we need a new mindset to make the change.

The only thing that is constant is change, as they say. All religions and schools of philosophy have tried to decipher the ...

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