BODH GAYA, India (Reuters) - Tales of corruption, looting and religious rivalry are swirling around the spot where Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment in eastern India some 2,500 years ago, ...

Quiet flows the Phalgu, undisturbed and unseen. The river, according to a legend, hides itself by simply disappearing from the common man’s view. Once Ram and Sita stopped by its banks for a breather.

The Bodhi tree, the sacred descendant of the peepal tree under which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment about 2,500 years back, is in good health and there is nothing to worry on the health front, ...

BODH GAYA, India, July 20 (UPI) -- The 2,500-year-old tree under which Gautama Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment is alive and healthy, Indian scientists said Thursday. The Bodhi tree, ...

Religion may, in the Marxist reckoning, be the opium of the masses, but in Bihar today, the selfsame masses evidently feel a compelling need for alternative forms of psychotropy. In the land of the ...

What Mecca is to Muslims and The Temple Mount is to Jews, the Bodhi tree is to Buddhists. Located in Bodh Gaya, India, it is epicenter of the Buddhist universe – the place where Gautama Buddha (i.e.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced the comprehensive development of the Vishnupad Temple corridor in Gaya and Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya in Bihar. Supported by the government ...

In early British India , many European scholars were engaged in rediscovering and documenting Indian antiquities.

GAYA: The 2565th Buddha Jayanti was a low-key affair this year at the Mahabodhi Mahavira at Bodh Gaya on Wednesday. Due to some technical reasons live streaming of the symbolic activities performed at ...