By ensuring that the Buddha’s teachings were transmitted across millennia, the religion helped develop and spread printing techniques around the world – as a new exhibition reveals. Do you ever feel ...

<p>Legacy lost: The ancient Brahmi script on display at a museum in Patna. Bihar’s literary legacy goes back more than 2,000 years but many languages and scripts are struggling to survive<br></p> ...

Background: He was born in Glens Falls and grew up in Wooster, Ohio. He's a documentary filmmaker who has lived China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam and will soon move to Myanmar with his wife, Agnes.

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human ...

Colombo, October 27: Earlier in October, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Buddhist language Pali is being officially designated as one of India's“classical languages.” With this, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Thursday that the recognition of Pali as a classical language honours the great heritage of Lord Buddha, as he took swipe at past Congress governments for its ...