Powerful abbots once seen as untouchable now face investigation as Beijing reins in excess wealth and religious ...

A new dance production, presenting the life story of the legendary Buddhist scholar Kumarajiva (343-413), one of the greatest ...

The statement follows the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday in July, and further calls on the Chinese government to provide updates ...

Buddhism spread from India to China during the Han Dynasty, and since has been practiced in China for over two millennia. From the Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern, and Northern Dynasties, and ...

At TIME, Yang Siqi reports on Buddhism’s role in the well-documented religious revival sweeping China’s middle-class. Targeted as representative of the “Four Olds” during the Cultural Revolution, many ...

Many monasteries lost their properties during the 1950s, while several temples suffered damage in the 1960s and 1970s.

China has launched a crackdown on powerful Buddhist monks suspected of misusing temple funds for personal wealth.

WUXI, China (Reuters) - The Beijing-backed Panchen Lama addressed an international Buddhist audience in English on Saturday, as officially atheist China turned to Buddhism as a balm for internal ...

One of China’s former highest-ranking Buddhist monks sexually harassed nuns, China’s top religious regulator said Thursday, just weeks after he strongly denied the accusations against him. In a ...

Five years ago, Beijinger Robert Zhao went on a trip to Tibet. What he encountered left him confused but intrigued. A science graduate from China’s elite Tsinghua University, he had been taught to ...