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Special pujas are performed to honour Lord Vishnu and his divine incarnations, such as Parashurama, Narasimha, Hayagriva, Nara-Narayana, and Lord Buddha. One important ritual during Vaishakh ...

At the age of thirty-five, under a papal tree, Sidhartha reached enlightenment and became an "enlightened one"--a Buddha (c. 528 BC). Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni ...

We found the world’s largest bronze statue of Vairocana Buddha (the Buddha of Light) standing at 14.98 meters high to be far more striking than we expected. Todai-ji is a very important landmark ...

Big Buddha is a giant statue of Buddha encased in Burmese alabaster that towers over Phuket from the peak of Mount Nagakerd. Construction on Big Buddha began in 2007, and Phuketians are proud of ...

Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on display ... four colored panels of cloth that represent ...

With your mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death." Buddha propagates the idea of Nirvana; a place of perfect peace and happiness where a person’s desires and suffering ...

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The way I am going to do this is by comparing Jesus with the Buddha (which, unfortunately, is going to be an oversimplification due to length constraints), which is something I believe we should do to ...

Amitayus, the Buddha of Eternal Life, is also known as Amitabha, one of the five Cosmic Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism. (Representational image) At an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Phyongan ...

In this sacred month, devotees especially offer prayers to his avatars such as Parashurama, Narasimha, Hayagriva, Nara-Narayana, and Buddha. It is considered highly auspicious to perform an abhishek ...