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 ...

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's National Religious Affairs Administration issued a set of rules on the management of online behaviors for clerical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...