Taiwan Temples Forsake Tradition for Environmental Responsibility
By Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
The potential damage to the environment and to the health of devotees from staggering levels of dangerous particles in the air...
Korean Researchers Claim Scientific Evidence for Meridians
By Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
Acupuncture is generally held to have originated in China, being first mentioned in documents dating from a few hundred years leading...
Dispute Over Buddhist Sites
By Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
The ancient Buddhist heritage sites in order to tap the burgeoning Buddhist tourism market, a curious rivalry has emerged between the...
A Centuries-old Buddhist Practice for Jizo Bosatsu
By Shyamal Sinha, New Delhi
Traditional families living in a village in a mountainous region of western Japan have for centuriespassed down a curious Buddhist practice...
PM Modi Uses Buddhist Monks to Woo Dalit Voters in Uttar Pradesh
By Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
Monks in India not only do the preacher job but can be utilised as political campaigner also for upcoming election in...
Ancient Buddhist Temple and Stupas Found in Bangladesh
By -Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
Excavating the 900-year-old Buddhist temple at Dharmapalagarh. From thedailystar.net
The Bangladesh government’s Department of Archaeology has unearthed a 900-year-old Buddhist temple. Working...
17 TH KARMAPA ANNOUNCES PLANS OF MONASTIC COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
By- Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
: The head of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, presiding over the 3rd...
Xi Jinping reorganised PLA into five zones
By -Shyamal Sinha,New Delhi
xi jinping inaugurated the military’s five new “battle zones”, the Defense Ministry announced , the latest step in President Xi Jinping’s...
Tsai Ing-wen becomes Taiwan president in landslide victory
By Benjamin Yeh and Amber Wang | AFP
ON THE WEB, 16 January 2016
Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan’s main opposition party will become the island’s first...