Dried branches of Bodhi tree chopped
August 1st, 2012 - 7:09 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Aug 1 (IANS) Some dried branches of the Bodhi tree, under which Lord Buddha attained enlightenment, were chopped Wednesday after a dried branch fell into the Mahabodhi temple ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Kushinagar in UP to have international airport
July 18th, 2012 - 3:17 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, July 18 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government will soon undertake construction of an international airport at the Buddhist pilgrimage town of Kushinagar, around 320 km from here, an ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Thai woman returns to ailing dog in Bihar
May 2nd, 2012 - 12:33 pm ICT by IANS
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), May 2 (IANS) Their love knew no boundaries. This is the story of Thai national Fa Tha Nik who has returned to India to take Prince, ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Wasps sting tourists in Bodh Gaya
March 23rd, 2012 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, March 23 (IANS) Over three dozen tourists, including those from Sri Lanka and Cambodia, have come under attack by wasps in the past three days in Bihar's Bodh ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Empowering lives, transforming villages - the self-help way (March 8 is International Women’s Day)
March 7th, 2012 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), March 7 (IANS) Bimla Devi of Bara village in Bodh Gaya block of Gaya district mobilised over 200 women to block traffic movement on the highway ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Another foreign visit for Dalai Lama - but not to Tibet
January 27th, 2012 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala, Jan 27 (IANS) The globetrotting Dalai Lama visited not less than 18 countries last year and the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism already has on the cards a ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Democracy is the best system: Dalai Lama
January 11th, 2012 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Jan 11 (IANS) Stating that democracy was the best political system, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Wednesday said "a country belongs to the people, not ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Bihar Police confirm terror threat to Dalai Lama event
January 7th, 2012 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 7 (IANS) A shadow of terror looms over the Buddhist Kalchakra puja at a holy site in Bihar's Bodh Gaya which is being attended by Tibetan ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Preserve Tibetan culture, Karmapa tells Tibetans
January 6th, 2012 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Jan 6 (IANS) Tibetan religious head and the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje Friday asked Tibetans to preserve their rich culture and religion."Your main duty is ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Dalai Lama gets Mahatma Gandhi peace prize
January 4th, 2012 - 7:30 pm ICT by IANS
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Jan 4 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Wednesday received the Mahatma Gandhi peace prize from the father of the nation's granddaughter Ela Gandhi in ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Gere in Bodh Gaya to attend Dalai Lama’s discourse
January 2nd, 2012 - 3:50 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 2 (IANS) Hollywood star Richard Gere is attending a religious discourse on Buddhism by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the 10-day Kalachakra puja in Bihar's ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Dalai Lama prays at Bodh Gaya ahead of Kalachakra puja
December 31st, 2011 - 10:42 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Dec 31 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama offered prayers at the Buddhist holy site of Bodh Gaya Saturday, a day ahead of the 10-day-long 32nd ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
McLeodganj deserted as residents leave en masse for Bodh Gaya
December 31st, 2011 - 3:47 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala, Dec 31 (IANS) Even as people from India's northern plains throng to the hill stations to ring in the New Year, one hill settlement is wearing a deserted ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Go vegan for ritual: Tibetan government-in-exile
October 30th, 2011 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala, Oct 30 (IANS) The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) based in this Himachal Pradesh town Sunday appealed to the followers of Tibetan Buddhism to go vegetarian and stop animal ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Myanmar: India rejects China rivalry, Sittwe port by 2013
October 13th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) A day before holding talks with Myanmar, India Thursday rejected competition with China and opposed sanctions targeting Yangon. New Delhi also set 2013 deadline ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Bhutan PM to carry home Buddha’s relics
October 1st, 2011 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 30 (IANS) Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigme Y. Thinley, currently on a visit to the city, would Saturday be carrying home three relics of Lord Buddha from India.Announcing ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Councillor has six kids, loses post
July 22nd, 2011 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, July 22 (IANS) A councillor in a civic body here has lost her post for having more than two children - the maximum limit set under a new ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Bhutan to help promote tourism in Bihar
May 6th, 2011 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, May 6 (IANS) Impressed by Bihar's changing image and development in the last few years, Bhutan is keen to sign a joint pact with the state to promote ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Annual conference of state minorities commissions concludes
March 18th, 2011 - 10:36 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 18(ANI): The annual conference of state minorities commissions concluded here today at Vigyan Bhawan with a number of recommendations for improving the lot of minorities in the country. ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Buddhist monks in India pray for quake victims
March 13th, 2011 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala/Patna, March 13 (IANS) Buddhist monks and nuns gathered Sunday morning in monasteries in India to pray for those who lost their lives in the devastating earthquake and tsunami ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Buddhist monasteries closed for third day in Bodh Gaya
March 12th, 2011 - 3:11 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, March 12 (IANS) All foreign monasteries and their guest houses in Buddhism's holy town Bodh Gaya remained closed for the third day Saturday to protest power supply being ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Buddhist body loses cool after power cut in Bodh Gaya
March 10th, 2011 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, March 10 (IANS) Buddhism's holiest town is facing a particularly un-Buddhist squable over money and power. The International Buddhist Council Thursday threatened to shut all its monasteries and ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Nine killed as truck auto-rickshaw crash in Bihar
March 1st, 2011 - 3:39 pm ICT by ANI
Gaya , March 1 (ANI): Nine people were killed and 10 others injured in Gaya, Bihar, on Tuesday, when a truck rammed into two autorickshaws.The incident happened near Bodh Gaya International ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Bihar beckons: NRI shooting documentary with Hollywood crew
January 19th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
By Imran Khan
Patna, Jan 19 (IANS) California-based NRI filmmaker Ravi Verma has come all the way to his native Bihar with a Hollywood crew to make a documentary on famous Chinese ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Tibetan Buddhism can solve global conflicts: Karmapa
January 3rd, 2011 - 10:06 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Jan 3 (IANS) The four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism are trying to find common ground to carry forward Lord Buddha's teachings in way they can ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Tibetan Buddhist sect’s 900th anniversary celebrations end
December 30th, 2010 - 10:26 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
Bodh Gaya, Dec 30 (IANS) The 22-day commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism Thursday ended at the historic Kalachakra ground in the ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
5,000 initiated into Tibetan Buddhism at Bodh Gaya
December 29th, 2010 - 8:18 pm ICT by IANS
Bodh Gaya, Dec 29 (IANS) More than 5,000 people from across the globe sought refuge in the compassionate light of Gautam Buddha in a six-hour initiation ceremony conducted by one of ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Buddhists to throng Bodh Gaya Thursday for special rites
December 27th, 2010 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism will commemorate 900 years of its lineage Thursday with a special prayer and ritualistic offering at the Mahabodhi Stupa ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Bihar’s landless march for land reforms
December 24th, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by IANS
By Imran Khan
Patna, Dec 24 (IANS) Ignoring the freezing winter winds and away from whatever warmth their thatched huts provide, hundreds of poor and marginalised men and women in Bihar are ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Valuable letters handed over to Sarnath museum
November 22nd, 2010 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Nov 22 (IANS) The Anagarika Dharmapala Museum of the Maha Bodhi Society of India has been gifted original letters written by two venerable Sri Lankan Buddhist monks who helped revive ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Nitish Kumar meets Bhutanese PM in Bodh Gaya
September 26th, 2010 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Sep 26 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday met Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonpo Jigmi Y. Thinley in Bodh Gaya to discuss the development of a Buddhist circuit in the ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Bhutanese PM attends annual Mahabodhi Society meet
September 25th, 2010 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Sep 25 (IANS) Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmy Y. Thinley Saturday attended the annual general meeting of the Mahabodhi Society of India (MSI) in Bihar's Bodh Gaya after visiting the ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Japanese couple weds Hindu style in Bodh Gaya
September 24th, 2010 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Sep 24 (IANS) A Japanese couple tied the knot in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, a holy town for Buddhists, in Hindu style to send a message of peace and harmony to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Japanese tourist found dead in Bodh Gaya
September 9th, 2010 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Sep 9 (IANS) A 43-year-old Japanese tourist was found dead Thursday in a guest house room in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, police said.
Police said the body of Sirachi Viroki was found ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
The Dalai Lama: A monk on the move
August 23rd, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
By Vishal Gulati
Dharamsala, Aug 23 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is 75 but still a true globetrotter, so much so that he doesn't really need to unpack.He's made 11 ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |