By halting the Sotheby’s auction of rare Piprawah Gems, sacred Buddhist relics excavated in 1898 in Uttar Pradesh, India is ...

Five years ago, Beijinger Robert Zhao went on a trip to Tibet. What he encountered left him confused but intrigued. A science graduate from China’s elite Tsinghua University, he had been taught to ...

NEW DELHI (IANS) – During a National Conference in 2021 focused on religious affairs, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of Chinese-oriented religions in China. The Chinese ...

Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many may not know is that this interpretation differs vastly from its practice in East Asia. I have ...

Beijing’s fourth-ranking official Wang Huning urges association to exercise ‘comprehensive and rigorous governance over the ...

Indian Consul General in Shanghai, Pratik Mathur, visited the Tiger Hill Pagoda in Suzhou to commemorate Indian Prime ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Bodhidharma, a revered Buddhist monk who lived during 5th or 6th century is credited for transmitting Chan Buddhism (the Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism) in China. The word Chan ...

Fred de Sam Lazaro's reporting is a partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Face to Face Media. FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: On the 20th floor of a Beijing high rise, one of ...

Known as the transmitter of Chan, or Zen Buddhism, the Chinese monk, Bodhidharma, was said to have a volatile temperament. Portrait of Bodhidharma. Fourteenth century, ink on silk. Courtesy the Freer ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is profaning Buddhism by suggesting that he will not be reincarnated when he dies, the Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet said on ...