Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

Asia Society Museum's Buddhist Art of Myanmar, which explores Buddhist narratives through approximately 70 works spanning the fifth through the early twentieth centuries, opened earlier this month in ...

Shortly after the Buddha attained Nirvana ... was also the wheel of caravans, and a symbol of highways radiating in and out of the royal market. In Buddhist lore, Buddha was described as the ...