India, often revered as the land of spiritual awakening, has been a cradle of Buddhism for centuries, preserving its rich ...

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To sit down and meditate or kneel down and pray is possibly the most radical option we have. Finding silence and stillness ...

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According to Katsumi Tanabe, professor at Chūō University in Japan (in “Alexander the Great. East-West cultural contact from Greece to Japan”), besides Vajrapani, Greek influence also appears in ...

3. According to Thomas Donaldson, Ratnagiri rivalled Nalanda as a learning centre, with even some of the Tibetan texts even seen at the place where the Mahayana and Tantrayana (also known as Vajrayana ...

The 'Vajracchedika Prajñaparamita Sutra or 'Diamond Sutra' is a Mahayana (one of the two primary branches of Buddhism) Buddhist scripture from the genre of Prajñaparamita ('perfection of wisdom ...

When examining the influence of Mahayana Buddhism in Sri Lanka it would be appropriate to approach the topic from a human interest angle before moving into history, archaeology and the academic sphere ...