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.

China cracks down on Buddhist monks like Shi Yongxin and Wu Bing for misusing temple funds, aiming to regulate the booming ...

The downfall of Shi Yongxin, the once-untouchable abbot of China’s Shaolin Temple, has thrown fresh light on the precarious ...

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Patna: A leopard skin and ‘hathjodi' (monitor lizard's reproductive organs) were seized by the regional unit of the ...