According to Buddhist tradition, Asuras once lived alongside the Devas (their more benevolent cousins) in a city called Trayastrimsa on the peak of Sumeru, a holy mountain at the center of the ...

For Buddhism, though, the Big Problem isn’t death — instead, it’s disconnection, ... A man once asked the Buddha if he was a deva, a god like the deities in the Hindu Vedas.

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 ...

This blog will elucidate the planes of Buddhist rebirth, with illustrations from two Burmese cosmological manuscripts held in the British Library, Or. 14004 and Or. 14550, which have recently been ...

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.

When you first start your journey in Devas of Creation, you will be taught how to gather basic resources such as Rocks, Wood, ...

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 ...

It's a hole-y site. Devotees in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand are going viral after praying at the altar of a giant gilded vagina, which was created by the cultist, Buddhist nun Mother Brahmin to ...

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 ...

According to Buddhist legend, the first prayer flags were used by Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Devas, or angels, would carry flags that had Gautama Buddha’s prayers written on them ...