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 ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method ...

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...

Buddhism as a Cultural Ambassador Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOUNG RUESSEI, CAMBODIA — On the grounds of a Buddhist temple, a crowd gathered in ...

We have no such “all-perfect” God idea in Buddhism. There is mention of a “creator of all” in sutras, but mostly these ...

A fascinating new study shows how these seemingly contradictory practices might share more in common than anyone realized.

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.

Through them, God redeemed the parts of me and my life ... I also came to recognize that my immersion in Buddhist practices was valuable, as opposed to something that counted against me or made ...