Released during Vesak 2026, a new book uses postage stamps and postal cards from more than 80 countries to retrace the life of Gautama Buddha.

Next, I will discuss Buddhist philosophy and the Buddhist approach to suffering. But before I do, I wanted to relate Buddha's life—which, if nothing else, is a marvelous story. The Buddha’s dates are ...

The historical Buddha is largely an artefact of 19th-century European scholarship rather than a recovered fact, as per ...

The story goes that when the Buddha was approaching his mahaparinirvana at age 80, he advised his faithful disciple Ananda that there were four great places of pilgrimage associated with his life. The ...

A reporter’s essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia. By Aatish Taseer The T writer at large Aatish Taseer spent some three weeks traveling for “The Prince’s Journey” and several months reading ...

When Siddhartha Gautama was born, he was clearly no ordinary infant. According to Buddhist texts, he raised his hand to the skies and declared, “In the heavens above and below the heavens, I am the ...