Lord Gautam Buddha himself travelled in Southeast Asia and conducted number of sermons to spread his thoughts. Subsequently, his Shravakas, Pramahas & Bodhisattva played important role in developing Buddhism in China, Japan ...

The objective of the study is to survey the emergence and the development of the early human settlements in the middle Mahaweli river basin. This area represents the lower montane region of the island. The lower montane ...

The veneration of life forms in South India has been an explored as a paradigm for its multidimensional interpretations and cultural meanings in a land where holiness is a common attribute to creation. The various plants, ...

Based on my ethnographic fieldworks conducted in Rakhine State (Myanmar), my presentation focuses on the Rakhine indigenous medicine (taing-yin hsaypyinnya). The aim is to outline its origins, its principles, the evolution ...

The festivals celebrated across the societies have had the imprints of the myths. Raja festival in Odisha is one such festival. Stretched over three days of celebrations, this festival of eastern India falls around mid - ...

This paper examines the Buddhist perspective on other religions with special reference to substantial accounts reflected in the Pāli canon (which is the primary source of the Theravada Buddhism). In addition, canonical ...

The Researcher will use Ethnographic approach, utilizing in-depth interview of the key informants, participant-observation and triangulation. Key informants include the folks of Malolos, Bulacan who participate in ...

The statue near the Potgul Vihara at Polonnaruva has been considered as an excellent work of art. However, the identification of the statue has hitherto been ambiguous though it has been attempted to identify either as a ...

There are some three quarters of a million, mostly mountain-dwelling, people speaking one or another dialect of the Lahu language and residing in the uplands that characterize much of the borderlands of South Western Yunnan ...

forms of religious authority operate with respect to a class of ritual therapies for a negative horoscopic condition called nagadosham (snake blemish) in three spaces: Hindu temples in the United States, the renowned Hindu ...