-There is a lot of evidence in the literature for this time that the cities were expanding, but do we get evidence in archaeology too? -We get lots of evidence. This is the period when cities were emerging and expanding all over the country. -These l...
For the Buddha, the rigid hierarchy of the caste system and sacrifices to the gods relied on blind faith and received wisdom, not any kind of rational explanation. He passionately thought that must be a more robust, a more credible way to understand...
Brahmans were responsible for reciting the vedas, an ancient body of divine teachings and hymns in sacred spaces and in people's homes, just as they do today, another key role was to perform sacrifices to persuade the gods to sustain the order of the...
A small tribe state that was run by a council of Brahmin man from one clan to Sakyas that it is those fathers probably clan leaders from prosperous families, not great king that we always hear about. As the Buddha headed the south, he experienced the...
The king, prefering his son to be a more conventional emperor, surrounded him with luxury to attach him to a worldly life, The streets were cleared of unpleasant sights so he was blissfully unaware of the suffering of the world. But the plan backfire...
It was the start of a journey that would take from the foothills of the Himalayas and end here on the plains of Northern India. His mission was to make sense of human life. For me, Its genuinely exciting that what did Buddha discovered 25 centuries a...
So what was going on? I want to investigate their revolutionary ideas to understand what set them in motion.-In this episode, I'm on the trail that most enigmatic philosophers, the Buddha, the wandering seeker of truth that challenged religious ortho...
Since the dawn of civilization, the forces of nature and the whims of gods held sway over humanity. -But two and half thousand years ago, humankind experienced a profound transformation. Suddenly, there were new possibilities. -This is a time nationa...
In the city of the Golden Buddha, the day begins as it has for hundreds of years. Throughout the town, Buddhist monks put on their braid orange robes and begin to gather in temples to pray and meditate. With dawn comes / the call to morning alms. A...
当月光皎洁明亮时，人们可以通过肉眼清晰的看到月亮上的阴影。各个文化的初民们，都发挥自己的想象，将月亮上的阴影拟为人世间的事物。因此，嫦娥、桂树、玉兔就应运而生了。 然而关注着月亮的，并非只有中国人。梵语中，印度就是月亮的意思；在印度，月亮更是一切美好...
