The Yungang Grottoes are the crowning achievement of this ancient culture. Although the city of Datong today has become a leading center for China’s coal industry, the “land of Buddhism ...

in ancient China, ranked second only to the emperor's imperial palace. To show his respect for Buddhism, the emperor ordered that the residence of the Indian Buddhists be called a si, and ever ...

CHINA DAILY One thing that the land was never short of was remarkable life stories. Between 385 and 401, Kumarajiva (344-413), a Buddhist monk from the ancient kingdom of Kucha in present-day Aksu ...

The Chinese government venerates Kumarajiva not only for his contributions to Buddhism but also as a symbol of China’s ideological and geopolitical ambitions. China is using Buddhist narratives ...

It wasn't until after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 that efforts were made to restore the grottoes.

JONG-RIM, Honorary Chairman of Tripitaka Koreana Research Institute, Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, shared insights from the digitization efforts of the Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa Temple in Korea.

UNESCO’s executive board on May 24 approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891) for inclusion. Enchin founded the Tendai Jimon sect after bringing back the teachings of Chinese ...

The style of sculpture and the imagery in the cave allow scholars to trace the route of the spread of Buddhism in ancient China." For around a century, the cave was sealed off from the world.

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was born, but they do ...