We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons, and during both trips we made sure to visit Nara ...

The Airavateshvara Temple, built during the 11th-12th century in Tamil Nadu, features an ancient optical illusion. The ...

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist ...

The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

Buddhist temples vary in style and design, but they usually feature a main hall, a Buddha statue and space to meditate.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past ...

Myanmar is trying to come to terms with the scale of the disaster after an earthquake damaged not only large parts of the country, but also destroyed historic sites, delivering a blow to its spiritual ...

The earthquake leaves over 1,700 dead. "All temples and pagodas have collapsed," says a Mandalay resident, the country's ...

Feet are considered the lowest and, frankly, least “pure” part of the body in Thai culture. That means you don’t put your ...

The old-world enclave, famous for its Gross National Happiness (GNH) index, has started work on an ambitious new project that ...

Rain and cooler temperatures have brought some much-needed relief to South Korean firefighters battling the country's worst ...