The Chief Adviser said the International Buddhist Monastery is one of the symbols of communal harmony in Bangladesh. Since its establishment, he said, it has been playing an important role in ...

Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Across India, the fish is a sacred symbol — all kinds of fish. The salt-water fish (Surmai), fresh-water fish (Goonch), fish of ponds (Rohu) and rivers ...

As in Hinduism, elephants are revered in Buddhism as symbols of fortune and protection ... representing salvation from suffering and fertility. Buddhists and Hindus can freely marry each other ...