Pilgrimage has been a significant part of human civilization, binding cultures, religions, and races across continents. It's a spiritual voyage that millions undertake each year, seeking solace, answers, or simply an intimate encounter with their faith. What are the pilgrimage destinations you must visit, and why are these places so revered?
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A network of socially conscious Buddhists is challenging conceptions of personal devotion to tackle pressing problems in the faith and even beyond their country's borders.
Sulak Sivaraksa in March 2023. Photo by Kalpana Jain. A devotee receives a blessing after offering alms to a Buddhist monk on a sidewalk in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, March…
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Team of Pakistani and Italian archaeologists have discovered an over 2,300-years-old Apsidal temple of the Buddhist period and a few other precious artefacts in Taxila remains Northwest Pakistan.
Menander’s coins (thefridaytimes.com)
The discovery has been described as the oldest temple in Pakistan of the Buddhist period.…
Makar Sankranti 2020: Date, Puja Vidhi, Shubh Muhurat, Mantra - all you need to know about signficance of ritual
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The festival of kites is here ad we can hardly contain our excitement, reported DNA.
Makar Sankranti marks the first Hindu festival of the year and is observed in different parts of the country under different…
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued its latest report about religious freedom in the United States, and the results are less than stellar. This report is published every year on May 1 and has been since 1999, reported World Religion News.
This year marks 20 years since the initial…
Japanese authorities denied a man the chance his wish to die a castaway on an island he called home for three decades.
Masafumi Nagasaki was the only inhabitant of the kilometre-wide Sotobanari island but was forced to return to civilisation after being found unwell by police, reported Daily Mail
He lived in solitude since 1989 and…
Dussehra (Vijayadashamiis) a major Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navratri every year. It is observed on the tenth day in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, the seventh month of the Hindu Luni-Solar Calendar, which typically falls in months of September and October.
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Over a thousand people had gathered in the area to witness the burning of Ravana effigies, reports suggest that people started running on the sound of crackers and failed to hear the incoming train whistle, reported "The indian express"
Over 50 people are feared dead and several injured…
Authorities in India's most populous state have changed the Muslim name of an historic city to one with Hindu overtones reported Al Jazeera
Allahabad, a city of more than one million people in northern Uttar Pradesh state, will now be known as Prayagraj.
The city, home of India's first…
Religious Turism wants to introduce you the most remarkable monument of Chinese Buddhism in the caves of Mogao. The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 492 temples 25 km in Gansu Province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of…