According to the report, China has long recognized religion as a tool for diplomacy. In Sri Lanka, Buddhism’s deep spiritual roots offer a natural entry point, with Beijing sponsoring temple ...

Colombo: China's systematic undermining of Buddhist values in Sri Lanka reflects a calculated strategy aimed at embedding the Chinese Communist Party's agenda into the spiritual and political ...

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

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Fred de Sam Lazaro's reporting is a partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Face to Face Media. FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: On the 20th floor of a Beijing high rise, one of ...

The scenic city of Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province is playing host to the first World Buddhism Forum which opened this morning. Liu Yandong, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee of the ...

Known as the transmitter of Chan, or Zen Buddhism, the Chinese monk, Bodhidharma, was said to have a volatile temperament. Portrait of Bodhidharma. Fourteenth century, ink on silk. Courtesy the Freer ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to attract followers. Longquan temple says it has developed a robot monk that ...

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a senior lama is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. China says the tradition must continue and it must approve the next Dalai ...