The Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu site, situated in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, was once the seat of the ancient Shakya kingdom. It is believed to be where Prince Siddhartha (later Lord Buddha) spent ...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa received the relics of Buddha (bone fragments excavated in Kapilavastu and considered sacred by Buddhists) at a stately ceremony at the Bandaranaike airport in ...

To facilitate the exchange of foreign currency by tourists, a transaction zone will be set up in Kapilavastu along the Indo-Nepal border soon, Uttar Pradesh government officials said here on Monday.

Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, was presented with Lord Buddha's sacred Kapilavastu relics on Thursday morning. The sacred relics were located at RajaGuru Sri Subuthi Waskaduwa Maha Viharaya ...

As both the treasures, tangible and intangible ones, play a crucial role towards enriching our cultural legacy that advances human capital, cultivating peace and harmony from within, these intangible ...

Stupas erected over the Buddha’s bodily relics (Saririka stupas) are the earliest surviving shrines of Buddhism. (PIB, National Museum) Four holy relics of Lord Buddha arrived in Mongolia for an ...

The Government of Nepal’s official nomination to designate Tilaurakot–Kapilavastu — the ancient city of the Shakya Kingdom, described in the early Buddhist texts as the childhood home of the Buddha ...

New Delhi, June 20: Twenty weeks of excavation that the Archaeological Survey of India has just carried out in an eastern Uttar Pradesh village may add another page to the longstanding debate whether ...

The sacred Kapilavastu relics that were brought to Sri Lanka on August 19, after more than three decades, made its way back to India on Wednesday (September 12) after an estimated three million people ...

The Sacred Kapilavastu Relics (fragments of Buddha’s bones) will travel from India to in Sri Lanka in August. These will be on display across Sri Lanka from August 20 to September 5. The relics will ...