When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

The Greek colonies of Central Asia that had been left behind after the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great had, by the 1st century BCE, largely converted from Greco-Roman paganism to ...

She is now Professor of Japanese Religions in the Religion Department of Princeton University ... especially Tendai and Nichiren Buddhism.

It exploited the Buddhist belief that once a person dies, his body must be buried in the family plot or his soul will wander aimlessly. (01:14) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our ...

Key Chinese practices this essay will cover are ancestral rites and divination, the teachings of the philosophers Confucius and Laozi, and Buddhism. Appreciating the complexity of this rich and ...

This clip could be used as a summary of the main Buddhist beliefs. Pupils could work in pairs to summarise this clip in 100 words, communicating the essential ideas. This clip could form part of a ...

considered more a "way of life" that's made up of many different beliefs. Most of the forms of Hinduism worship Brahman as ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

In Thailand, traditional Buddhist beliefs are being combined with modern pop culture symbols, such as the Labubu doll Pushed ...

Rupert first became interested in Buddhism when studying for a degree in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester ... whether Theravada, Tibetan, Chan, Nichiren, etc. Ivy’s journey into ...

The ties of Buddhism have been an enduring bond for more than two thousand years between India and Laos, a country Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit to at ...