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Indian High Commission launches mobile exhibition series harmonizing modernity with tradition
The exhibition serial is named ‘Buddham Sharanam Gacchami’
New book challenges the notion that Buddhism died in India
Author Shashank Shekhar Sinha says that India had been having conversations about Buddhism even after the religion was thought to have died in 13 th. Century CE, and therefore, it had remained part of the Indian thought-scape throughout.
Wu Zetian, China’s only female and Buddhist Empress, was an enigma
The legendary beauty made China a Buddhist country with the help of Indian and Chinese monks overcoming stiff opposition from the proponents of Confucianism. But she stopped at nothing to satisfy her gargantuan appetite for power
The ideological basis of Gandhi’s fasts
January 13, is the 77th. anniversary of Gandhi’s last fast which was aimed at restoring Hindi-Muslim amity in riot-torn Mehrauli near Delhi
P. Jayachandran packed every song with tenderness
The late singer’s enviable voice carved a niche in Malayalam and South Indian music, captivating listeners worldwide
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Maldives after Maldivian Ministers visited India
Male, January 10: Both Beijing and New Delhi are wooing Maldives because of its strategic importance and Maldives is hoping to reap benefits by cultivating the two geopolitical rivals. Close on the heels of visits to India by the Maldivian Foreign and Defence Ministers to...
Curtain raiser on Lankan President’s visit to China
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will visit China, his first since coming to power, next week By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, January 10: On the eve of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s official visit to China next week, the Government officially put the record straight...
Maldivian ministers’ visits to India comprehensively strengthen bilateral ties
Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon and Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel reached wide-ranging agreements with India during their back to back visit to New Delhi. By Gulbin Sultana New Delhi, January 9 (South Asian Affairs): Maldivian Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon is on a three-day...
Was Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism political or spiritual?
Critics say that his conversion was not spiritual but political. But to Harvard University’s Christopher Queen it was an amalgam of both and that, for valid reasons. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: 18: The father of the Indian constitution and the unquestioned leader of the...
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