Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he ...

Ashoka was the first ruler in history who abandoned war after experiencing its horrible consequences. He converted to Buddhism because it teaches peace and non-violence. Afterwards he followed the ...

After the Mahaparinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha, his profound non-sectarian, universal teachings were not confined to the borders of India but rather travelled throughout Asia, crossing the paths of ...

The recent administrative changes and political developments in the state of Jammu and Kashmir after the Indian government ended the State’s special status,Hindus and Buddhists there got an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Rachael Kohn: His symbol is featured on the Indian flag, but King Asoka was a Hindu who converted to ...

The Mauryan Empire (322 BCE - 185 BCE) was the first and one of the most influential empires in the Indian subcontinent.

Nayanjot Lahiri’s first effort at narrative history, Finding Forgotten Cities (2005) – about the discovery of the Indus Civilisation almost exactly a hundred years ago – has inspired many students of ...

Although Buddhists form only a small minority in modern India, the significance of India as the spiritual homeland for both Buddhism and Buddhists cannot be overemphasized. (The Buddha himself, who ...

A delegation of high-ranking Sri Lankan Buddhist monks, who were on a pilgrimage to the Bodh Gaya have recalled the historical Buddhist connections between India and Sri Lanka which have a legacy of ...