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How pop culture rewrote Buddhist history - Buddha looks nothing like this

The smiling, big-bellied figure people call the Buddha isn’t the Buddha at all. He’s Budai, a wandering Zen monk who lived ...
BroadwayWorld

The Buddha from Babylon Reveals History of the Buddha

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. NEW YORK, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ According to new research, before he attained ...
The Hindu

‘The Buddha was a master teacher who catered his message for different audiences,’ says author Douglas Ober

Shortlisted for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India offers a new perspective on the history and revival of Buddhism in India. In an interview ...

Historicity | Bringing the Buddha home: The Piprahwa relics

Buddhism, which was born in the Gangetic plains around 2,500 years ago, has won over the world with its ideology of ...

Militant Buddhism: A long history of how Sri Lankan Buddhist monks treated non-practitioners

Some Buddhists asserted that, though a Buddhist king should be committed to non-violence, he might be called upon to cancel ...
Times Union

Buddha's history evolves

American Buddhists are outraged by the violent acts of Buddhist monks against Muslims in Myanmar. Buddhism is a religion of peace, we assert — so how can Buddhists possibly engage in violence? Some ...
BBC

History of Buddhism in Britain

A look at how Buddhism has spread in Britain and its unique British shape. According to the 2001 census there are 151,816 Buddhists in Britain. However, that does not take into account those who ...
The Hindu

History of Combodian Buddhism

Much of the source material available on Cambodian Buddhism is in French. This is understandable, given that France was Cambodia's colonial power. What is available in English is only scanty. This ...