Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site of ...

A rare Buddhist relic from the 3rd century BC was displayed publicly at Lalitgiri in Jajpur district during the Guru ...

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) recovered a Buddhist statue in Phoenix that had been shipped illegally to the United States over 50 years ago. HSI said the investigation for the 9th-century ...

Ratnagiri, Lalitgiri, and Udaygiri—have been added to UNESCO's Tentative List, paving the way for potential World Heritage status. This development highlights Odisha's ancient legacy and aims to boost ...

Two-dozen previously unrecorded Buddhist caves have been found in the Tala range of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the Archaeological Survey of India reported last week. The caves date back to the 2nd ...

A Lotus Sutra scroll praising the manifold mercies of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Universal Gateway chapter of the Lotus Sutra/Calligrapher: Sugawara Mitsushige/The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

An ancient Buddhist temple and various other structures have been found in a tiger reserve, during the first expedition to the area for 84 years. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) revealed ...

Bhubaneswar:  A rare Buddhist relic dating back to the 3rd century BC was brought out of museum and put on public display at ...

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