A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to full ordination as a monastic.

What the show gets wrong about Buddhist practices - ANALYSIS: Thailand and its Buddhist traditions provide the backdrop to ...

Though the edifices of Nalanda were largely reduced to mounds and the great monastery ceased to function in the early ...

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

The anime medium is no different, as many series have featured martial arts. However, these series are often nothing alike, ...

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

Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement ...

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.

Museum officials say they are voluntarily repatriating the object after learning that it had been stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley ...

An archaeological excavation team was shocked to find a fully intact Buddha torso statue from the 12 th or 13 th century ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head ...