Month: June 2017

Is there another personification of peace as inspiring as the Buddha, wonders artist ANNU KALRA… Buddhism has often baffled me. Buddhists do not believe in the existence of any eternal soul, yet there are Jataka kathas about the previous lives of Gautama the Buddha, both in human as well as animal forms. Many a lessons have I learnt in childhood from reading those tales; lessons in compassion, in responsibility, and in many other finer emotions. But as a grown-up exploring the realm of various religions, I was told by self-proclaimed Buddhists that they do not believe in the concept...