NIKHILA HENRY October 25, 2015 ,  The Hindu        

Driven by conviction, scores in Telangana have started walking 
along the eight-fold path or Ashtanga Marg to pursue the Buddhist 
way of life.
The path which stresses on pursuit of the right view, intension, 
speech, conduct, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration, 
has found a record number of 750 followers distributed across the 
20 Buddha Viharas in Hyderabad, only the previous year.
And 300 of those who adopted the religion did so at a Buddha 
Sammelan, a massive gathering organised by the Buddhist society 
of India held at Nagarjunasagar of Nalgonda district in 2014.