Beijing: Chinese University Scholars claim that China has had imprints of Ramayana stories concealed in Buddhist scriptures for millennia, bringing to light, maybe for the first time, the influence of ...

A Ming Dynasty Buddha statue found on a roadside in Western Australia's Shark Bay region seven years ago could soon be ...

Buddhist monks and citizens in Laos are opposing a plan to build a Chinese-style Buddha statue in the capital Vientiane terming it a “cultural encroachment” from its largest foreign investor and aid ...

One of China’s former highest-ranking Buddhist monks sexually harassed nuns, China’s top religious regulator said Thursday, just weeks after he strongly denied the accusations against him. In a ...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 -- Chinese authorities have detained a prominent, U.S.-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in Inner Mongolia province and have ...

Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese ...

Archaeologists in China may very well have discovered the remains of Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, secretly tucked away under the rubble of a destroyed temple. The 1,000-year-old artifact features an ...

A headless Buddha in a Chinese blockbuster video game has unexpectedly renewed discussion on a topic that is of great interest worldwide -- art repatriation. The Buddha in the video game "Black Myth: ...

Reporting from Beijing — A large Tibetan Buddhist academy tucked in a remote valley of Sichuan province is under threat of large-scale destruction by Chinese authorities for the second time in 15 ...

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- A headless Buddha in a Chinese blockbuster video game has unexpectedly renewed discussion on a topic that is of great interest worldwide -- art repatriation. The Buddha in ...