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Friday, December 19, 2025
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Topic: Buddhism

‘Soft power’ flex? What ‘first-of-a-kind’ Global Buddhist Summit means for India

The 2-day Global Buddhist Summit, which concludes Friday, saw the participation of delegates from nearly 30 countries, including Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Mongolia.

Global Buddhist summit in New Delhi next week to discuss ‘solutions’ to world problems

The International Buddhist Confederation, which is supported by the Ministry of Culture, will organise the GBS.

After Austria, Belgium to become second EU country to recognise Buddhism

There are currently 6 worship services officially recognized in Belgium: Roman Catholic, the Orthodox, the Israelite, Anglican, Protestant Evangelical & the Islamic, recognised in 1974.

Unlike Hinduism, Buddhism promoted trade. Rich merchants and sea traders were mediators

Sri Lankan academic Bopearachchi delivered the first in a series of lectures aimed at highlighting new discoveries, methodologies in history & archaeology.

Buddhism did not spread by the sword. But the empires that helped it grow did

Greater Gandhara—the forgotten superpower that shaped India, Central Asia and modern-day Buddhism.

What we know as Indian Buddhism today was shaped by Central Asians and Greeks

What is acknowledged as ‘Indian’ now was developed across millennia by people who we don’t consider Indian today.

India’s Buddhist nuns you don’t hear about: Landladies, loan sharks, merchants

Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.

Rise and fall of Indian Buddhism was a stranger, more exciting process than we know

Andhra was once as foreign to Buddhism as China was. Its conversion to the religion took many innovations, including worship of the dead.

Did the Mauryas really unite India? Archaeology says ‘no’

Mauryas weren’t important because they were Nehru and Patel in the 3rd century, but because they are among the few that we know of from a most remarkable period.

Gandhara, the ancient kingdom that gave world its first Buddha sculptures

The anthropomorphised Buddha made way for narrative reliefs depicting his life, replete with iconography borrowed from Graeco-Roman and subcontinental cultures.

On Camera

Why India fell off the global middle-class map

A stunted middle class may be a direct result of extreme inequality. Folks at the top don’t see teeming masses as a meaningful market, except for utilities, soap, short videos, and personal loans.

India’s financial reforms target a wave of foreign money

Up to 100% foreign ownership of insurance firms, and overhauled rules for banks, pension funds and capital markets aim to shift savings from idle assets toward equities, bonds and long-term investments.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.