'If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha!" This, the command of a ninth-century Zen master to his disciples some 1,300 years after the death of the Buddha, is the quandary any biographer of Sidhatta ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract An investigation is provided on the narration of the Buddha's biography in Burmese murals of the Pagan Period (eleventh to thirteenth century ...

In earlier blogs, as well as my recent book, "Buddhist Biology," I’ve been writing about convergences between Buddhism and biology. Let’s talk now about the Buddhist idea of karma – updated to reflect ...

Of all the biographers enlisted to write for the successful and acclaimed Penguin Lives series, none could have faced a harder job than Karen Armstrong. It’s not just that Siddhartha Gautama — known ...

MUMBAI: It looks like this time the proposed biopic on the life times and teachings of Gautam Buddha would finally see the light of day. Or shall we say, the darkness of theatres the world across.