Introduction -- The Material of Religion -- From the Buddha to Ashoka: c. 600-200 BCE -- The Sangha and the Laity: c. 200 BCE-200 CE -- The Beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Images, and Monastic ...
In the archaeological site of Kerameikos in Athens, Greece, there is an ancient tomb of an Indian Buddhist monk named ...
Few periods in Japanese history are more fascinating than the seventh century. This was the period when Buddhism experienced its initial flowering in the country and the time when Asukadera, Kudara ...
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...
Vihara, Jharkhand, India (left), and Buddha and Buddhist deities (right) Archaeologists in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have unearthed a small vihara, an early type of Buddhist monastery. A ...
An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was recently discovered at an archaeological site in North Korea. The Goryeo study saw the flourishing of Buddhist art and architecture funded by ...
Buddhism is considered to have been introduced to Japan from Paekche in AD 538. From that time on edifices of some kind probably existed for housing Buddhist images, although this has not yet been ...
WASHINGTON—Archaeologists working in Nepal have uncovered evidence of a structure at the birthplace of the Buddha dating to the sixth century B.C. This is the first archaeological material linking the ...
Two-dozen previously unrecorded Buddhist caves have been found in the Tala range of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the Archaeological Survey of India reported last week. The caves date back to the 2nd ...
NAOGAON, Sept 28, 2025 (BSS) - The Paharpur Buddhist Vihara, South Asia's oldest archaeological site and a UNESCO World ...
Srinagar: Kashmir has a secret buried underground. It is one of the largest complexes of stupas. And archaeological circles in the valley are abuzz, waiting to unearth the region’s most significant ...