And so it goes on, 1,200 years later, the complex working-out of the relationships that we see embodied in Tara, between Sinhalese and Tamil, between Sri Lanka and south India, between Buddhists and Hindus.
An awful flicker of doubt appeared in her eyes. I slid my arm around her waist and murmured that if we were counting heads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money.
For centuries, yogis and Buddhists have used controlled breathing techniques like this to gain the upper hand over the nervous system and science is beginning to understand how it works.
Foreign artists from across the Buddhist world brought their own distinctive style of art and here influenced each other, copying and fusing styles ultimately creating an entirely new direction in art the Guge school.
State television in Myanmar has released footage of a rare white elephant born in the western Rakhine state, an animal considered auspicious in the Buddhist majority country.