Colombo, July 28: Nepal, the birthplace of the Buddha, is now a predominantly Hindu country with 81.19 percent being Hindu, 8.21 percent Buddhist, 4 ...

Kopan Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat perched atop a hill, is one of the most frequented monasteries in Nepal. It attracts a large number of visitors every year who come to study Buddhism ...

Casual remarks by the current leader of Tibetan Buddhism invite us to ask what possibilities might arise if we extend moral ...

Nepali conservationists say they believe there’s a possible link between the Buddha’s legacy and the conservation of sarus cranes in Lumbini, Nepal, where he was born.

MANANG, Nepal — In Bhraka village of western Nepal’s Manang district, 72-year-old Buddhist nun Tashi Lama sits in silence, chanting as she turns her prayer wheel.

Nepal's state minister for culture, tourism and civil aviation Sushila Sirpali Thakuri has claimed that the Buddhist circuit will further strengthen relations between Nepal and India.

Missionaries, many of them South Korean like Pang, have helped build one of the world's fastest-growing Christian communities in Nepal, a former Hindu kingdom and the birthplace of Lord Buddha.

Diplomatic envoys from several countries gathered Monday evening at the residence of Nepal’s Ambassador to Israel, Dhan Prasad Pandit, to celebrate Buddha Jayanti—the birthday of Siddhartha ...

A buddha (“enlightened one”) is an all-knowing being who has reached that perfect state of transcendent knowledge in which the fires of greed, hate, and delusion are quenched and, upon passing into ...