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PM Modi to meditate for 24 hours at Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari
Chennai | May 28, 2024, 05:46 PM ISTPM Modi will visit the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, from May 30 to June 1, marking the end of his Lok Sabha election campaign. He will meditate at the Dhyan Mandapam, the same site where Swami Vivekananda meditated, highlighting its spiritual significance.
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Railways mulling train from Kolkata to cover key Buddhist sites
India | Jan 18, 2015, 09:05 AM ISTKolkata: Railways is planning to introduce a special train from Kolkata to offer tourists a spiritual tour of key Buddhist circuit cities spread across the region where the religion originated thousands of years ago.The train
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Branch of historical 'Bodhi tree' falls in Sarnath
India | Jun 21, 2014, 11:21 PM ISTVaranasi: One of the branches of the historical ‘Bodhi tree' in Sarnath, where Gautama Buddha had given his first sermon and set in motion the ‘Dharma-Chakra', has fallen.According to Ven-Baddegama Nanda Thero, Assistant Bhikku in-charge
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ASI digs up rare sculptures at Sarnath
India | Mar 12, 2014, 04:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a significant discovery, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has excavated rare pieces in Uttar Pradesh of Gupta Art belonging to the Sarnath School depicting Lord Buddha.Interestingly, ASI carried out the excavation after