In this episode of The India Today Culture Project, host Manish Adhikary takes you on a journey through the fascinating evolution of Buddha's image. Major ski resort announces immediate closure ...
The camp’s founders, Frank and Jospehine Duveneck, purchased the tiles in 1913, years before the ancient Buddhist emblem was co-opted by Nazis into the hate symbol it’s known as today.
The container and content, concealment and revelation, descent and entering, and incubation and gestation all contribute to ...
Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...
However, not all Muslims consider the crescent and star to be an Islamic symbol. The dharma wheel symbolizes the teachings of Buddha, who prompted followers to think of it as the "wheel of ...
Known as a result as Monk Budai, he visited Fenghua in today's Ningbo in Zhejiang province, to spread Buddhism and before he died, he revealed that he was the manifestation of the Maitreya (or future) ...