Hundreds of Chinese temple paintings recovered, 23 theft suspects arrested so far. Paintings, some from before the Qing dynasty, are to be restored. Reading Time: 1 minute. Why you can trust SCMP.

Data showed Chinese temple visits more than quadrupled this year compared with 2022, while sales of lottery tickets jumped in April to their highest in a decade. Sign up here.

Each temple houses anywhere from 30 to 500 seniors. Buddhist temples have a long history of charitable involvement in China. Often working at the behest of the government, they offered basic services ...

Chinese temples are moving with the times, said Buddhist enthusiast Bai Ze, who is also an independent temple product designer working with several temples in East China's Jiangsu Province.

Question: In your opinion, the Mo'er Temple Site was greatly influenced by Han Chinese Buddhism. Is there any more concrete evidence to support this? Xiao: In addition to this shape of Buddhist ...

Trees at temple sites are also older than those outside them, with a mean age of 261 years compared with 203 years. Some of the trees growing on temple grounds had been there for 2,000 years.

The oldest Chinese temple in Canada, located in the country's oldest Chinatown, may have to shut down if it can't raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for necessary repairs.