Controlling the process of reincarnation enables Beijing to shape the spiritual leadership of Tibetan Buddhism.

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

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.

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 ...

Here is a look at the life of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Buddhist spiritual leader of the people of Tibet. Personal Birth date: July 6, 1935 Birth place: Taktser, Amdo, Eastern T ...

The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book ... The ...

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In 1992, while visiting Lhamo La-tso and Lhasa in Tibet, China with Buddhist author Robert Thurman ... of American artists and writers when the Chinese took over was pretty overwhelming, so ...

it is widely accepted to be based on folk tales and oral accounts of a 16-year trip to India undertaken by Xuanzang (602-664), a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar, during the Tang dynasty.

Kushan monks, such as Lokaksema (c. 178 CE), travelled to the Chinese capital of Loyang, where they became the first translators of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. Two half-brothers from ...

Current scholarship on modern Chinese Buddhism primarily focuses on reformist, Humanistic Buddhist organizations that emerged in Taiwan in the last few decades. These church-like groups, with their ...