In early 526, a Chinese emperor granted a personal audience to an elderly Buddhist monk. The monk, Daodu, explained to Emperor Liang Wudi that he had grown weary of “this physical frame.” The body “is ...
The Buddhists came by the busload to this partially frozen reservoir about 55 miles north of Beijing. In the morning, they released 53,000 fish into holes cut in the ice. In the afternoon, they walked ...
China’s famed Shaolin Temple announced on Sunday that its abbot is under investigation for suspected embezzlement and “improper relationships” with women, reviving decade-old allegations against the ...
Every Saturday evening, the monks of Wenshu Monastery in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu offer visitors of all faiths a seat at their table. The sumptuous — and free — spread comprises dozens ...
The smiling man with the shaved head and orange-yellow robes is here to help. Yin Guang Shi, a Buddhist monk, traveled 5,000 miles from Dalian, China, to spend at least one year in Longview, learning ...
Since the late 1990s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has institutionalized its monitoring of Tibetan Buddhism. Currently, ...
Here's something you don't see every day: a photographer went to the Shaolin Temple, in China's Henan province, and he asked a monk to bless his Hasselblad camera – apparently becoming the first ...
The famous Shaolin temple, known for kung fu and Zen culture, a place of pilgrimage for followers worldwide, is under scrutiny. It has been discovered that its abbot had secret children with several ...
Over the weekend, survivors of China's powerful April 14 earthquake cremated many of the more than 1,700 people killed. Hundreds of others remain missing. Vultures circled over the bodies of the dead, ...
(Updates with raid details in paragraphs 2-3) BEIJING, April 17 (Reuters) - Armed police raided a monastery in northwest China and detained dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks on Thursday, following anti ...
PEI Premier Rob Lantz last week urged RCMP, FinTRAC to probe long-standing allegations concerning Bliss and Wisdom ...
HEMPSTEAD - A line of colorfully robed monks slowly walked around a small altar adorned with a white statue of Buddha. They sprinkled water on the ground as chants and drums echoed over the green ...