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Bihar`s Mahabodhi temple gets income tax notice

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 13:22

For the first time, the Income Tax department has issued notice to Bodh Gaya`s Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism`s holiest shrine, over its collections, officials Tuesday said.

Buddhism has kept me sober: Boy George

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 10:24

Singer-songwriter Boy George has credited his new-found belief in Buddhism for helping him stay sober and clean of drugs.

Sotheby`s to auction Buddhist art

Last Updated: Sunday, September 1, 2013, 08:48

Pan-Asian Buddhist paintings and sculptures from the ancient regions of China, Japan, Tibet, and Nepal are up for auction at Sotheby`s.

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr with prayers, feasts

Last Updated: Thursday, August 8, 2013, 10:06

Indonesia is one of the first countries in the Islamic world to kick off Eid celebrations, with people ending the fasting month of Ramadan with lavish feasts.

Nepal Buddhists demand construction of shrine

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 23:51

Buddhist community halted traffic to protest against a refusal to allow them to build a religious shrine at Kakre Bihar in western Nepal.

Nepal protesters demand installation of Buddha statue

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 21:18

Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born a prince in Lumbini, more than 2,600 years ago.

Cylinders used in Bodh Gaya blasts made in Meerut: Probe

Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 19:19

The cylinders used in the bombs that targeted Bodh Gaya were manufactured in Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh and procured by the perpetrators locally in Bihar, investigators have found.

Myanmar`s `Buddhist bin Laden` unharmed in bomb attack

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 14:57

A Buddhist monk of Myanmar, who is famously known as `the Buddhist bin Laden`, was left unharmed during a bomb blast on the outskirts of Mandalay.

Renovated Buddhist statue to be opened for worship in China

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 14:40

Built in the Tang Dynasty, the centuries-old statue is expected to reopen to visitors in early August in the Bingling Temple Grottoes.

Thailand`s `jet-set monk` being hunted over sex charges

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 13:58

The so-called `jet-set monk`, Luang Pu Nenkham, has claimed to be the reincarnation of a respected monk who lived several decades ago.

Mahabodhi Temple blasts: Buddhist monk on hunger strike in protest

Last Updated: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 11:35

A Buddhist monk has gone on an indefinite hunger strike here in protest against the recent blasts at the famed Mahabodhi Temple.

25 Buddhists sentenced in deadly Myanmar riot

Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 22:19

Twenty-five Buddhists were sentenced to as many as 15 years in prison for murder and other crimes during a night of rioting, burning and killing in Myanmar.