Lord Ganesha is known by different names in Japan ... The worship of Kangiten is part of the tantric form of Buddhism that emerged in Odisha. This practice first reached China and then moved ...

Pune, being as central as it is to plenty of other historical places and nature trails. There is a hidden gem, the Bhuleshwar ...

The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

Devdutt Pattanaik wrote, “As Buddhist monks travelled along with ... there are ‘more than 250 temples across Japan dedicated to Ganesha’, who is locally known by different names like ...

Between the mid-sixth and mid-fourth centuries B.C., Buddhism was founded in northeastern India and soon spread throughout the Asian subcontinent, influencing cultural and spiritual practices ...

the Japanese version of Lord Ganesha. This deity's worship dates back to the 8th-9th centuries CE and is part of tantric Buddhism. Kangiten has evolved from a minor deity to a god of joy and bliss ...