Archaya Nagarjuna

This too is a giant statute of the great Indian scholar whose coming was predicted by Shakyamuni Buddha 400 years after Him. Nagarjuna received a fresh coat of paint for Christmas, and then a huge snake appeared, cicrumambulated once and disappeared giving the obvious approval of the nagas.

Bodhgaya

December 31st 2011
I've been back in New Delhi for the past week after three weeks in Bodhgaya. For non-Buddhist readers, Bodhgaya is in Bihar State, which is in central northeastern India, near Nepal. Bodhgaya is like the Mecca or Jerusalem of Buddhism, as it is the location where Shakyamuni Buddha, the forth Buddha of this world system attained enlightenment 2500 years ago beneath the bodhi tree. We are curren ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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