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‘Our heart is a hill / Underneath it, a Buddha sleeps’: A writer muses on Buddha and his teachings
An excerpt from ‘The Master of Unfinished Things,’ by Geet Chaturvedi, translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan.
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Searching for Buddha in Afghanistan
He has uncovered seven monasteries, fragments of a 62-foot-long reclining Buddha and many pieces of pottery and other Buddhist relics. But other scholars say the Chinese monk may have mistaken a ...
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Homeless menace accused of vandalizing 6 NYC temples – even hurling Buddha statue out window – set free in court: DA
Prosecutors say Ouyang tossed a Buddha statue through the window at the Huang Da Xian Taoist Temple. Ouyang’s fit of fury came to an end around 8:30 a.m. at the Huang Da Xian Taoist Temple on ...
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"Whenever Sri Lanka is in trouble, India stands up like family," says Buddhist monk
Ven. Pallegama Hemarathana Thero, a prominent Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, has expressed his happiness and gratitude towards ...
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Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
“Thus, the missing parts of the broken Buddha sculpture are nearly restored to their original form. The only missing part that has not been found is the right hand,” says the ANA, per the ...
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Future lies in Buddha, not in yuddh, says PM Modi at Pravasi event
"Bhavishya yuddh mein nehin, Buddha mein hai (The future lies not in war, but in Buddha)," he said during his inaugural address at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Bhubaneswar. The PM ...