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 ...

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

Kizil Caves – China’s Ancient Buddhist Legacy Is An Architectural Time Capsule There are 236 caves that reveal an amazing intercultural history for China’s ancient past. Dr. Russell Moul ...

The ancient kingdom existed in what is today China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It was once a well-populated oasis in the Taklamakan Desert. Mogao Caves in Dunhuang.

The Chinese government venerates Kumarajiva not only for his contributions to Buddhism but also as a symbol of China’s ideological and geopolitical ambitions. How the CCP Co-opted an Ancient ...

A Buddhist temple dating back to the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) has been unraveled in Pingcheng District, Datong City of north China's Shanxi Province. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency.

In the desert outside Kashgar, an oasis city in the far-western region of Xinjiang, an ancient Buddhist stupa rises out of the sand. Because of its conical shape, it is known as Mo’er, the word ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...