First Buddhist Council: It was held shortly after the Buddha's death, around 483 BCE in Rajgir, under King Ajatashatru's patronage. It focused on the oral recitation and compilation of the Buddha's teachings by prominent disciples like Ananda and Upali. ...
These women, who were widows, all believed that it was their fault that they were widows – they must have done something in a previous incarnation which had brought about their husband’s death – if they were Hindus. Funnily, their husbands did not think that they had done som...
Her death came as a shock and was mourned all over India. Her ashes were sent to her hostess Carpenter to be kept in her family cemetery in Poughkeepsie, New York. The next year, US feminist author Caroline Wells Healey Dall penned Joshi’s biography. India’s Doordarshan created a Hindi ...
Guru Nanak’s message can be briefly summarized as a doctrine ofsalvationthroughdisciplinedmeditation on the divine name. Salvation is understood in terms of escape from the transmigratory round of death and rebirth to a mystical union with God or, as he is called inPunjabi, Waheguru. The divin...