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 ...

When Namkyi was 15 years old, she and her sister Tenzin Dolma dressed in traditional Tibetan attire and began a protest ...

The Chinese incarnation of the #MeToo movement gained momentum last week after several well known figures in the public interest sphere were accused of rape or sexual assault, and accusations of ...

This article examines a Buddhist vinaya (or, monastic code) precept against the use of silk; it includes the broader contexts of Chinese Buddhist silk culture and Chinese applications of Indian ...

A Chinese court has sentenced a leader of a Buddhist sect to life in prison on charges of leading a cult, rape and fraud in the latest case to target the leader of a fringe religious group amid a ...

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 ...

In the Mongol period, the Uighurs who settled around the Turfan region not only translated Chinese Buddhist works into the Uighur language, but also directly copied them in Chinese characters or ...