Here Buddhism incorporated local customs and practices resulting in a unique blend of Buddhism and indigenous religious traditions. The development of diverse Buddhist practices, rituals ...

Accused of undermining Buddhist traditions by permitting a popular show on temple grounds during Vesak festival ...

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President Luong Cuong gifted a traditional Vietnamese monochord (đàn bầu) to Mrs. Nagy Zsuzsanna, First Lady of Hungary, ...

Arrows that sing. Wrestling on horseback. Houses on stilts. Witchcraft, mountain gods, Buddhism — and much more. Over 2,000 items collected from around the Xizang autonomous region's Nyingchi ...

Thiong’o was admired worldwide, including by authors John Updike and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and by former President Barack ...

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The Sri Lankan Embassy on Saturday held an event to commemorate Vesak - the three sacred milestones in the life of the Buddha: his birth, enlightenment and death - at the Rama IX Golden Jubilee Temple ...

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books ...