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 ...

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 ...

Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird. Ars ...

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 ...

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 ...