Rishengchang exchange shop at Pingyao. [Photo by Deepankar Aron/ For chinadaily.com.cn] During the eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220), under the Ming emperor's reign in particular, Buddhism started ...

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2010), pp. 247-273 (27 pages) This article examines medical works aimed at nourishing life and promoting longevity composed or compiled by ...

While on an after-dinner stroll in Wutai county, I entered an art and crafts shop containing beautiful Buddhist paintings (thangkas) where a group of Chinese were having a tea ceremony around a large ...

After rooting around in Chinese historical literature, a design team created a stage image related to Jiletian, the flying goddess in Chinese Buddhism, and connected it in a musical performance with ...

This apart, a large idol of a Buddhist goddess and 5th century sealings have been recently found from the excavated area. BHUBANESWAR: Remains of a Chaitya Griha have been found near the three ...

Aside from the purely visual pleasures they provide, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new Chinese, Indian and Southeast Asian galleries constitute an invitation to learn about Hinduism and Buddhism, the ...

One more note - in China, very few people are exclusively one religion or another. If someone actually says they're only a Buddhist in China, they're probably in religious orders as a monk or a nun.

A three-year-old girl in Nepal has been anointed as a Kumari Devi (living goddess), an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju. She replaces a girl no longer eligible to be accorded divine status upon ...