Many happy Buddhas
A dramatic shift happened in Buddhism roughly 500 years after the historical Buddha. This dramatic...
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10 mythological tales from...
Fact is everybody’s truth. Fiction is nobody’s truth. Myth is somebody’s truth. It’s a...
What came first: The world or...
As per scientists, the world began 13 billion years ago with the Big Bang. Earth came into being...
The goddess of sailors
For such a vast coastline, Indians do not have much of sea mythology. Most images of boats in...
How many eyes do you have?
‘With a woman by your side, you are like the three-eyed Shiva. Without her, you are the one-eye...
Who is a Hindu? Hindu ship of...
There is a famous philosophical problem popularly known as the ship of Theseus, or the Theseus’s...
The mountain of Vedas
The Brahmanas (religious texts) refer to manuals that connect Vedic hymns (mantras) to rituals...
Aggregation of Buddhist atoms
The fundamental difference between Hinduism and Buddhism rests on the idea of the soul or atma...
Fever from Shiva’s rage
The Vedas, which are over 3,000 years old, refer to a deity called Rudra who is fierce and feared...