Like many of the five million Tibetans living under China's flag, he'd spent nearly all of ... he's used some of his wealth to help restore the Buddhist shrine, or stupa, across the dustblown ...
On a sunny spring day, I stood at the top of a steep hill in Nepal's Himalayan mountain range. I turned to look at the path I ...
Then the Buddhist pilgrims, gravitating toward the ... “land of the thunder dragon”—has survived in splendid isolation, a place the size of Switzerland wedged into the mountainous folds ...
Cambodia is the only nation in the world to depict a ruin on its flag and “Angkor” is a crucial component ... Jayavarman was a pious Buddhist, and larger than life size portrait statues of him have ...
The Parliamentary Complex where the commemoration was held took on a typical Sri Lankan Vesak atmosphere with Buddhist flags and Vesak lanterns. The Buddhist clergy invoked blessings on those who were ...
Nagpur: The scene at Deekshabhoomi, the sacred site where Dr Ambedkar had embraced Buddhism with his followers, was electric on Saturday. A sea of followers and Panchsheel flags filled the venue ...
The King of Silla hearing that Emperor Tai Zong of China was an ardent believer in Buddhism, wanted to send a gift to the ... Many miniature Buddha images were also placed on the mountain. The size of ...
The cruel jokes on size, sensitiveness etc., continue. As does cutting the wife's sentences mid-way, taking phone calls mid-meeting etc. We, of course, have mastered the art of telling them off in ...
At Chua Dieu Ngu Buddhist Temple in Westminster, Calif., the flag of South Vietnam flies next to a Buddhist flag and the American flag.Credit...Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times Two years ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China pledged on Saturday to "significantly increase" debt to revive its sputtering economy, but left investors guessing on the overall size of the stimulus package, a vital ...
Few pilots are even qualified to negotiate the strip, which is only the size of a couple football fields and is surrounded ... which aims to be a modern Buddhist lifestyle destination and economic ...