Reiko Ohnuma, a scholar of South Asian Buddhism, argues that Maya is remembered in Buddhist tradition as an idealized, if ...

The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, taught that family ties were obstacles to enlightenment. However, his relationship ...

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A new road will bring trade, and tourists, to the remote village of Ghami – a place that currently has the feel of a lost ...

Thanks to her good karma, Maya had been reborn in the heavens as a god, but in Buddhism gods are not as spiritually ... An order of nuns still survives in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, where ...