Architecture around the world has taken some truly unexpected turns. While sleek glass towers and gravity-defying structures ...

While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived ...

There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early 8th century, making them some of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the ...

They attract history enthusiasts, archaeologists, and travelers from around the world, making Maharashtra ... offering a glimpse into early Buddhist rock-cut architecture. However, even the ...

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised. Christianity and Buddhism have experienced especially large losses from this ...

Its layout perfectly adapted to its religious function, this monastery-city represents a unique artistic achievement. With its simple, harmonious lines and its profusion of carved decoration, it ...

Around the circular platforms are 72 openwork stupas ... The Borobudur Temple Compounds is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world, and was built in the 8th and 9th centuries AD during the ...

The Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation, is an effort by Pew Research Center to understand religious change and its ...