Religion may, in the Marxist reckoning, be the opium of the masses, but in Bihar today, the selfsame masses evidently feel a compelling need for alternative forms of psychotropy. In the land of the ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link What Mecca is to Muslims and The Temple Mount is to Jews, the Bodhi tree is to Buddhists. Located in Bodh Gaya, India, it is epicenter of the ...

Bodh Gaya becomes the spiritual heart of India on Buddha Purnima as devotees gather at the place where Buddha attained ...

Despite a long and somewhat formidable line of scholarly works on Bodh Gaya, several questions related to its past still remain unresolved. The succeeding generations of scholars have provided us with ...

An investigation into the claims that foreign monasteries in Bodh Gaya are participating in commercial activities, such as ...

Bodh Gaya struggles to attract tourists despite its spiritual significance, calls for infrastructure development and improved facilities by local leaders. Many holy places across the world earn a good ...

Two persons arrested near in connection with the bomb blast in Bodh Gaya in January last had allegedly planned to set off the explosives to express solidarity with Rohingya Muslims fighting the ...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C) in Bodhgaya. (Agence France-Presse) Patna: Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited Bodh Gaya on Monday and prayed at the Mahabodhi temple, ...

A Thai Buddhist monk at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, which some fear faces ruin from over-development Credit: Photo: GETTY IMAGES Is nothing sacred? I found myself posing this question during a ...

Bodh Gaya is one of the leading pilgrimage sites of Buddhism. It is in this place at the foot of a large Peepul tree, Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha. Every year ...