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Ambedkar’s Buddha inspires me more than Gandhi’s: Jairam Ramesh
I connect more with Ambedkar’s social revolutionary Buddha than Gandhi’s spiritual teacher, says Jairam Ramesh
Mystic Mantra: The right measure of life: Abide by Buddha’s three great truths
Like Buddha, the true teachers have always emphasised the need for retaining the equilibrium between the material and spiritual scales of life.
The Buddha side of art
An exhibition that explores the teachings of Buddha, with a contemporary twist.
Cervantes’ friends thought he was deranged, burned his plays
Puchner is professor of drama and English and comparative literature at Harvard. He visited the Jaipur Literary Festival in 2014.
Mystic Mantra: As an ascetic, live a balanced life
Buddha taught a path that was neither about the denial of pleasure nor its affirmation.
Mystic Mantra: How to avoid life’s regrets
It was this simple message of the village girls that provided the emollient salve to his restless mind seeking a vision of an ideal life.
Mystic Mantra: Flowers from Buddha’s Garden
Buddha gives the technique: “Look within – the rising and the falling.”
Mystic Mantra: Whatever you do, you do it to yourself
This maxim could be a guiding star for everyone who is eager to do something in the world, change the world or create a revolution.
Exploring the minds of Buddhism’s great masters
These two books are really petit fours that will whet your appetite to know more, explore deeper.
Tackling problems in life & at work with the Buddha
The author deftly weaves into the work-field narrative Buddhist philosophies, particularly those espoused by 13th century monk Nichiren Daishonin.