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October 15, 2026 12:08 AM

India’s Civilisational Journey Has Been a Story of Cultural Exchange: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India’s civilisational journey has, for centuries, been a story of cultural exchange, with centres of learning such as Nalanda facilitating the exchange of knowledge across Asia and Buddhist monks, scholars, traders and travellers carrying Indian ideas to different parts of the world through land and maritime routes. In his message to the three-day international conference on ‘Bharat’s Cultural Connections across the Globe’, being held...

July 2, 2026 3:57 PM

Eight monks killed in Thailand after 11-year-old boy crashes truck

Eight Buddhist monks were killed and more than 20 others injured after being hit by a pickup truck driven by an 11-year-old boy while on a pilgrimage in Thailand's northeastern province of Mukdahan, officials said on Thursday. The victims were part of a group of 34 Buddhist monks and five lay followers undertaking a pilgrimage from a temple in Mukdahan province to another in neighbouring Ubon Ratchathani province, Mukdahan Governor Vorayan Bunarat said at a press conference. Five monks died at...

February 11, 2026 9:46 AM

Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey

Draped in burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday on a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace", a self-described spiritual journey across nine states that has been cheered on by crowds of thousands. "People want this," said Joan Donoghue, 59, from Silver Spring, Maryland, who had come out with four of her friends on Tuesday to see the monks. "I went on Sunday in Virginia and I waited outside for a long time and I talked to so many people and they all said the sa...

September 16, 2024 6:02 PM

“Baseless and wrong”, Buddhist monks on Kharge’s remark questioning Modi’s faith

Buddhist monks have come out in support of the Prime Minister after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge raised questions about Prime Minister Modi's faith in Buddhism. Monk Sheelratan of the International Buddhist Research Institute, called the remarks made by Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge as "baseless and wrong" regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "faith" in Buddhism. "The statement given by the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is baseless and wrong. Since...