While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the ... in the name of the Buddha, and wore dark brown ...

Buddhism started in India over 2,500 years ... It is famous for its gold sculpture of the Buddha. The pose of the statue celebrates the moment that the Buddha achieved enlightenment.

Gray- and black-clad monks from China hold aloft an undulating, blue-and-gold dragon ... exactly the Buddha lived. The findings could also shed new light on when and how Buddhism spread throughout ...