(THE CONVERSATION) Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what motherhood means in different religions and cultures. As a scholar of Buddhism and gender, I know how complicated Buddhist ...
What makes Buddha Purnima unique among global religious observances is that it marks three cardinal events in the life of Gautama Buddha, all believed to have occurred on the same full moon day: His ...
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh recounts Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism on October 14, 1956, in Nagpur, where he administered 22 oaths to half a million followers. This event marked a ...
Prince Siddhartha with his foster mother Mahaprajapati. A 1910 painting by Maligawage Sarlis. Photo by MediaJet, 2009 via Wikimedia Commons Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee Mother’s Day offers an ...
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