Hollywood star Richard Gere, who is in Bodh Gaya in Bihar to attend a five-day discourse on Buddhism by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Thursday supported the demand to turn the town where Buddha attained enlightenment into a vegetarian zone.
‘I am strongly in favour of turning Bodh Gaya into a vegetarian zone,’ Richard Gere [...]
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Jan 4 (ANI): Buddhist monks converged at Bodh Gaya here to witness a musical play depicting the life cycle of Karmapa Ujjain Trinela Dorjee, their 17th spiritual leader.
A huge crowd that had gathered to witness the breathtaking performance got deeply involved in the [...]
Patna, Jan 2 (IANS) A group of Buddhist monks are on a hunger strike to demand control over Bodh Gaya’s 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, days after Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan backed the move and sought the amendment of an act relating to the shrine.
The monks began their fast Friday near the office [...]
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Jan 1 (ANI): Thousands of Buddhists monks converged at Bodh Gaya to beg alms as a mark of promoting and spreading the message of universal peace.
Thousands of Buddhist monks led by the seventeenth Karmapa were seen begging for food and alms from the commoners in the town.
According to the Buddhist monks [...]
Patna, Jan 1 (IANS) Buddhist monks have demanded that Bihar’s Bodh Gaya, the place where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment, be declared a holy town.
Bodh Gaya should be declared a holy town as it deserves the status, Bhante P. Sivli, an official of the Mahabodhi Society of India, said.
Sivli told IANS over phone Friday that hundreds [...]
Patna, Dec 29 (IANS) Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan has come out in support of Buddhist monks who are demanding control over the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, the religion’s holiest shrine.
‘The LJP will fight for Buddhist control over the management of the Mahabodhi temple and to ensure it we seek an [...]
Jakarta, Dec 26 (IANS) Countries across the Indian Ocean Saturday marked the fifth anniversary of the catastrophic tsunami that killed almost 250,000 people, media reports said.
In Indonesia’s Aceh province, where 170,000 died, thousands held prayers in public mosques and private homes, BBC reported.
On Thai beaches, Buddhist monks chanted prayers as mourners held pictures of [...]
Colombo, Dec 26 (DPA) Sri Lanka Saturday marked the fifth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 40,000 people on the island, with religious ceremonies and offering of alms to invoke blessings on those who perished.
Families of tsunami victims in coastal areas in the eastern, southern and western provinces took part in the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): His holiness Gaden Tripa Rizong Sras-Trul Rinpoche of Ladakh has been appointed as 102nd Gaden Tripa, the supreme head of Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism.
His followers in the national capital felicitated him on Thursday under the auspices of Himalayan Buddhist Cultural Association.
Buddhist monks say his achievement has [...]
Saidpur (Gaya), Dec 15 (ANI): Mahabodhi Society, the apex body of Buddhists in India with the aid of a couple of like-minded voluntary organisations has set up a tailoring centre and also a free medical clinic for the poor people at Saidpur, a [...]
Mumbai, Dec.6 (ANI): People from different walks of life paid homage to Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and a crusader of the rights of the marginalised people of the country, on his 53rd death anniversary here on Sunday.
Ambedkar’s admirers assembled in large numbers to pay tribute to him at Chaityabhumi, [...]
Bodhgaya, Dec 1 (ANI): Farmers in Bodhgaya have switched to Chinese spinach farming relished by the locals and the foreigners visiting the holy Buddhist town.
The farmers claim that it is most sought after by the foreigners. The crop is becoming popular among the [...]
Patna, Nov 27 (IANS) Buddhist monks want control over the management of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, one of Buddhism’s holiest shrines. They have decided to intensify their agitation as the Bihar government is not paying heed to their demands.
For a long time Buddhist monks have been demanding total control over the 1,500-year-old temple [...]
Patna, Nov 23 (IANS) A group of Buddhist monks in Bihar are on a new peace mission — preaching Lord Buddha’s message of non-violence in the Maoist affected villages of Gaya district.
Five Buddhist monks Sunday visited Saidpur, a village affected by Maoist violence near Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha attained enlightenment, and preached his message [...]
Dharamsala, Nov 22 (IANS) Tibetan exiles of India, Nepal and Bhutan will participate in a two-day conference on environment in Haryana from Monday, a spokesperson for the Tibetan government-in-exile said here Sunday.
The department of religion and culture of the Central Tibetan Administration has been organising the conference.
‘Around 85 Buddhist monks, lamas and ‘tulkus’ (reincarnated lamas) [...]
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov.8 (ANI): Thousands of Buddhist monks and supporters welcomed Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader to Arunachal Pradesh in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district on Sunday.
The Dalai Lama arrived here in a helicopter in this remote Buddhist enclave nestled in the icy folds of the Himalayas, which he had passed through after fleeing Tibet [...]
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is expected to arrive here from Tokyo Saturday evening before leaving for Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh for a visit denounced by China, an aide said.
‘He will come to Delhi after a week-long trip to Japan. Tomorrow (Sunday) he leaves with a small delegation to [...]
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 7 (IANS) Dozens of Indian flags fluttered alongside Tibetan prayer flags Saturday as Buddhist monks braved the winter chill to put up welcome arches and Mandala paintings on the road ahead of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh.
The Tibetan spiritual leader arrives Sunday at Tawang, a picturesque town perched at [...]
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 5 (IANS) More than 800 Buddhist monks led by their high priests will welcome Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he arrives the mountainous northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh Sunday amid mounting protests from China over his visit.
‘Preparations are almost complete with 700 to 800 monks all set to give [...]
Dharamsala, Oct 26 (ANI): Scores of Buddhist monks in Dharamsala offer prayers as homage to martyrs of the Tibetan freedom struggle on Sunday.
Monks gathered at Tsuglagkhang Temple to offer prayers in memory of those who lost their lives fighting for the Tibetan cause.
Regional TibetanYouth Congress (RTYC), a Tibetan voluntary group, organized the prayers.
Tenzin Dicky, [...]
Dharamsala, Oct 15 (ANI): A four-day teaching session by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama began here on Thursday.
Thousands of people including Buddhist monks, nuns, foreigners and Tibetans assembled at the Tsuglagkhang Temple to listen to the preachings.
In his inaugural session, the Dalai Lama highlighted the [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 12 (IANS) After protests by Buddhist monks against the Nepal government’s alleged intervention in their religion, now the Muslim community is in an uproar over the bid to control the number of devotees making the annual pilgrimage – Haj – to Saudi Arabia’s holy city Mecca, warning to take to streets in protest.
The [...]
Samdruptse (Sikkim), Sep 24 (ANI): Hundreds of Buddhist monks and devotees have converged at the altar of Guru Padmasambhava at Samdruptse in Sikkim to offer mass collective prayers for universal peace during the ongoing 12-day long spiritual event.
The Vajra Guru [...]
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Sep 24 (IANS) Buddhist monks have been holding special prayers here for the safe visit of the Dalai Lama to India’s frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh after China objected to the Tibetan spiritual leader’s proposed trip, religious leaders Thursday said.
‘We are holding daily prayers so that the Dalai Lama’s visit passes off [...]
Samdrup Jhonkhar (Bhutan), Sep 22 (IANS) Bhutan Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigme Yoser Thinley will be among those joining a special prayer ceremony led by senior Buddhist monks Tuesday after an earthquake the day before claimed 12 lives and left a trail of destruction in this Himalayan nation.
A senior Bhutanese government official said the council of [...]
Bodh Gaya (Bihar) Nov 21 (ANI): Buddhist monks from various parts of the globe offered prayers for world peace here.
Scores of monks participated in the prayers that began under the sacred Bodhi tree, where Gautam Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment on Friday.
“We are [...]
