The Ullambana Festival is related to the legend of Mulian Saves His Mother. It is said that after going through innumerable trials and hardships in the nether world, Mulian finally saw his mother ...

Mulian Opera got its name from a play named 'Mulian Rescues His Mother'. As the oldest theatric genre, it can be called the ancestor of dramas. The tale can be traced back to Buddhist scriptures.

An actor performs the Mulian Opera in Xinchang County, east China's Zhejiang Province, March 14, 2011. It was the first Mulian Opera performance in Xinchang since 1996. The Mulian Opera ...

In the story, a monk named Mulian asks the Buddha to help his mother in the afterlife. Mulian’s mother was very hungry. But because she was a ghost, she couldn’t eat! Buddha tells Mulian to ...

Ltd. Taihua (Jiang Qinqin) and her young adult son Mulian (Wu Lei) live in the famed tea-growing region of Hangzhou in the east of China, near the banks of the West Lake. It’s a simple existence ...