The exposition of the Lord Buddha’s Tooth Relic evoked awe and reverence from Buddhists across the country. Devotees, from ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

Of central importance was the stupa’s relic chamber, made of six medha-pindika or “fat-coloured stones” brought from the land of the Northern Kurus. These Shereen opines could be sandstone. At the ...

Wild elephant encounters and ancient royal palaces are just some of the highlights of cycling through Sri Lanka, as Fiona Harper discovers.

An excerpt from ‘The Master of Unfinished Things,’ by Geet Chaturvedi, translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan.

From floating shrines and striking synagogues to golden monuments and sprawling sacrificial sites, these are the most ...

If you were planning a vacation in one of the world's most expensive cities, here are all the best free things to do in ...

He halted before the ruins of a seventh-century stupa, or relic chamber, a heap of clay and conglomerate rock. "This is where we started digging back in 2003, because the stupa was already exposed ...