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Buddha

Legend says prince Siddhartha Gautam saved a sarus crane. Is that why it is thriving in Lumbini?

Abhaya Raj Joshi
· Aug 27, 2023 · 07:30 pm
Fiction: The marriage of Siddhartha Gautama and how it crumbled in his quest for spirituality

Shyam Selvadurai
· Aug 23, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Who was Siddhartha before he became the Buddha? A new novel imagines the answers

Advait Kottary
· Jun 01, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Lights, lanterns, prayer recitations : How countries and cultures celebrate Buddha’s many birthdays

Megan Bryson, The Conversation
· May 31, 2023 · 09:30 pm
As Nepal demands repatriation of stolen artefacts, the auction of a Buddha statue raises questions

Elyssa Cherney, Crain’s Chicago Business Steve Mills, ProPublica
· Apr 02, 2023 · 11:30 pm
How the West discovered the Buddha through literature

Philip C Almond, The Conversation
· May 14, 2022 · 12:30 pm
Watch: India’s largest statue of a reclining Buddha is being built in Bodh Gaya, Bihar

Scroll Staff
· Mar 09, 2022 · 11:26 am
‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha

Jairam Ramesh
· Jun 08, 2021 · 08:30 am
How harpists (including one from Benaras) were portrayed in the tales of the Buddha’s former lives

Maria Kekki
· Mar 23, 2021 · 09:30 pm
The Burmese harp and the tales of the Buddha’s previous lives

Maria Kekki
· Nov 29, 2020 · 07:30 pm
Nepal strongly objects to S Jaishankar’s reference to Buddha as Indian, MEA issues clarification

Scroll Staff
· Aug 10, 2020 · 10:10 am
How the 50 ‘birth-tales’ of Buddha spread from Thailand to the rest of Southeast Asia

Jana Igunma
· Jun 20, 2020 · 07:30 pm
Christian Europe once celebrated the story of Buddha without even knowing it

Jana Igunma
· Jul 04, 2019 · 08:30 pm
An un-Kshatriya-like Siddhartha is in love with Yashodhara. Will her father allow the marriage?

Volga
· Jun 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm
London Police return 12th century Buddha statue, stolen 57 years ago, to India

Scroll Staff
· Aug 15, 2018 · 06:23 pm
We know the story of the Buddha, but what about his wife Yasodhara?

Vanessa R Sasson
· Jul 12, 2018 · 08:30 am
Harmony, serenity, watchfulness: What the deer signifies in Thai manuscripts on Buddha's birth tales

Jana Igunma
· Dec 28, 2016 · 08:30 pm
Nine years after Taliban defaced a historic Buddha statue in Pakistan, it has been restored

Fazal Khaliq
· Nov 10, 2016 · 09:30 pm
Beyond Harappa: Pakistanis struggle with the paradox of their Indian heritage

Haroon Khalid
· Aug 24, 2016 · 05:30 pm
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· Jan 10, 2016 · 07:00 am