"From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first ...

New Delhi: Jammu’s sole Buddhist site is finally stepping into the spotlight, as a growing chorus of demands calls for the infrastructure development and promotion of the site on the International ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

The North East holds one of India’s most compelling untold stories in Buddhist tourism — if only pilgrims could reach it. Every year, nearly three lakh Indian pilgrims travel to Lumbini in Nepal — to ...

The Smithsonian Buddha. (Digital image courtesy of the Smithsonian. Text by Vick Gan.) Deities in paradise, souls suffering in hell, jealous demigods and flying spirits, mortals gathered for ...