The story goes that when the Buddha was approaching his mahaparinirvana at age 80, he advised his faithful disciple Ananda that there were four great places of pilgrimage associated with his life. The ...

Eastern philosophy popularizer and mind-body pioneer Chopra has done novels before, and critics have not found fiction his long suit. That should change with this tale of how the Indian prince ...

There are certain days in the Indian spiritual calendar that feel larger than a festival, days that seem to carry layers of meaning that go far beyond ritual, and Buddha Purnima is one of them. In ...

Looking in each of the four primary directions a young man faces a choice: an elderly man, a scabrous woman, a corpse or a monk. Rejecting old age, disease and death, the man, Siddhartha, chooses the ...

Illustration of Josaphat’s, or the Bodhisattva’s, renunciation of the world in a German printed version from Augsburg, circa 1470 CE. He takes his leave from Barachias (left), whom he made king and ...

Another alluring feature of the book is the trope of complete merger of timelines Nalak, a book by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s nephew Abanindranath, is a study of the journey of the Buddha ...

This is the story of how a young man came to be known as The Buddha ("Buddha" means "awakened one"). He was not a god. He was a human being like you and me. As with all ancient tales, we can't know ...

In the hustle and bustle of our modern lives, amidst the constant buzz of notifications and obligations, finding moments of peace and clarity can seem like an elusive dream. It is during these times ...