Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians ...

Buddhism, like many religious traditions, is often harnessed to promote nonviolence. Contemporary practitioners will tell you that killing or cursing an enemy can lead to bad karma, which can delay ...

A mysterious Buddhist group with ties to a banned religious movement in China is at the centre of Australia’s first foreign interference charge against a Chinese national, with top Australian ...

The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...

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 ...

I'd say it depends on the mission's purpose. If it's civilian, and the government talks about it openly to the Chinese people, I imagine it's highly symbolic and relevant. People want to relate to ...

In the desert outside Kashgar, an oasis city in the far-western region of Xinjiang, an ancient Buddhist stupa rises out of the sand. Because of its conical shape, it is known as Mo’er, the word for ...