Some Buddhists asserted that, though a Buddhist king should be committed to non-violence, he might be called upon to cancel ...

Did you know there's an art form that blends Ancient Greek and Buddhist traditions? Welcome to Greco-Buddhist art, aka ...

The myth of Soma and his wives and curse by the father of one of them has been described as a way to link the deity at ...

Across India, the ruins of once-powerful cities lie folded into forests, buried beneath rivers, or absorbed into modern towns ...

Shashank Shekhar Sinha‘s series of books on ancient India is making waves. A true account of history is a key way to battle ...

According to the present RSS-BJP rulers of India, Indian Muslims are the villains of history. Categorized as Babar zade ...

Be it the Jagannath Mandir in Odisha, a Buddhist temple that was ‘taken over’ by Hinduism or the Jain idols destroyed during Adi Shankracharya’s countrywide yatra, these are no less historically signi ...

Never a dull day in Sri Lanka, where controversies abound. As if the ongoing political war on the government’s hurriedly introduced education reforms were not enough, there is a dispute over a ...

Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday told Parliament that the Buddhism textbook contained a “serious error,” citing the use of the Ashoka Chakra instead of the Dharmachakra. He said ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Alexander the Great established himself as Emperor of Asia and urged his generals to marry Persian women in the Susa weddings ...