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

Jackalopes are horned rabbits that have allegedly been spotted across the American West for centuries — but are they real?

The Mulan legend is widely recounted in Chinese literature ... both Taghbah and Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from India in a ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

A new graphic cookbook — complete with recipes and comic book-style illustrations — tells the backstories of the names behind ...

Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...

The seated or standing Happy Home Buddha holds a parasol over his shoulder. The white parasol or umbrella is said to be a goddess. The legend tells how she came out of Buddha's forehead.

Buddhism is one of the largest religions in ... Siddharta had many questions about life…and legend has it that he sat in the shade of a bodhi tree for 49 days thinking about the meaning of ...