Every inch of the "Cosmic Buddha" is filled with intricate relief carvings that depict a “conceptual map” of Buddhism’s Six Realms of Existence, from the heavenly realm of the devas at the ...

The gods, or devas, live in a state of bliss in the realm of heaven. Later sources subdivide this into 26 levels of increasing happiness. The gods live for a long time, but they too will die.

They tried climbing back into Swarga, but Indra and the devas would not allow them to come back. Thus began the battle of the devas and the asuras in Buddhist myths Swarga or paradise of the gods ...

TASMANIA’S Buddhist community has celebrated the successful placement of six majestic stone statues at the Tasmanian Chinese Cultural Park. The four seven-metre Great Heavenly Devas and two five ...