There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days ... She had spent weeks thinking about this speech. China was in it. Her husband was part of it.

Chinese authorities have recently dealt a blow to the major hub of Tibetan Buddhist learning by expelling more than 1,000 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, according to ...

PHNOM PENH: A former Buddhist monk and Facebook influencer ... investigation into the activities of a former monk who targeted young novice monks in Battambang and Siem Reap provinces, after ...

Chinese authorities have recently dealt a blow to the major hub of Tibetan Buddhist learning by expelling more than 1,000 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, according to ...

By the early 11th century several of the so-called western regions (part of modern-day Xinjiang, in China's far west) had been converted to Islam, and Buddhist monks placed tens of thousands of ...

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader ... Tibetan tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a ...