In Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, the Tibetan spiritual leader’s residence since he escaped into exile, preparations are in ...

Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than ...

Wu Zetian was a fifth-grade concubine in the Chinese royal harem in the 7th century who rose to become China's only empress. This is how she used Buddhism and Nalanda-trained scholars to capture ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Nestled along the northern Silk Road in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region stands a ...

A stone Bodhisattva head unearthed at an ancient Buddhist temple dating back to the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) in Pingcheng District, Datong, north China's Shanxi Province. Photo by Xinhua.

Kumarajiva hailed from the Kucha kingdom, an ancient Buddhism kingdom ... numerous sutras into scrolls of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Chinese, including the famous Lotus Sutra.

[1/3] A once submerged Buddhist statue sits on top of Foyeliang island reef in the Yangtze river, which appeared after water levels fell due to a regional drought in Chongqing, China, August 20, 2022.

The country’s ancient dynasties had an on-and-off ... But that hardly means Xinjiang was culturally or politically part of China. After all, Buddhism originally came from India.

The study found that religious sites in eastern China have become refuges for old, ancient and endangered trees. Since the early years of the Common Era, Buddhist and Taoist temples have sheltered ...