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 ...

Dhargye, now around 63 years old, comes from Serta in Walshul, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Son of Choephel and Choelha, he is a monk of Serta Sera Monastery. Before his arrest, he lived in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Buddhist Association of China released an article titled “Adhere to ‘precepts as the teacher’ to promote the healthy inheritance of Buddhism in China” on Thursday, following news that Shi Yongxin, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bapat, P. V./A. Hirakawa: 善見毘婆沙, Shan-Chien-P'i-P'o-Sha, A Chinese Version by Saṇghabhadra of Samantapāsādikā. Poona 1970. Bartholomeusz, T.: “The ...

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 ...