Remains of a wooden structure at the Buddha’s birthplace dating to at least 2,500 years ago provide a rare glimpse of ancient religious practice in South Asia. Excavations in 2011 and 2012 beneath ...

KATMANDU, Nepal - Archaeologists in Nepal say they have discovered traces of a wooden structure dating from the sixth century B.C. that they believe is the world's oldest Buddhist shrine. Kosh Prasad ...

Archaeologists have discovered a shrine in Nepal that may hold clues pertaining to Buddha's birth. A previously unknown wooden structure found at Buddha's birthplace hints that he may have lived in ...

Reporting from Katmandu, Nepal — Crowds filled the streets below the gold tower of the Swayambhunath temple on Monday, lighting candles at roadside stands and buying bouquets of yellow daisies and ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The United Nations' cultural agency decided Thursday against putting the Buddhist pilgrimage destination of Lumbini on its list of heritage sites in danger, instead giving ...

One of the largest of its kind in the world and a major tourist attraction, the Boudhanath stupa was repaired not with government funding, but with private donations from Buddhist groups and help from ...

The hippies have decamped from Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, and there’s a new buzz as some of the world’s most magnificent temples and palaces get a major face-lift. The monuments, the towering Himalayas ...

Beijing, May 19 (EFE).Beijing, May 19 (EFE). — The disastrous earthquakes that struck Nepal on April 25 and May 12 damaged 242 temples in the neighboring Tibet region in southwestern China, the ...