A 45-year-old Chinese woman disguised as a Buddhist monk has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally entering ...

A Chinese woman, Li Xinmei, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and fined Rs 50,000 for illegally entering India disguised as a Buddhist monk. She was intercepted at the India-Nepal border two ...

Local authorities in China said Sunday they had approved the arrest of the former head of the Shaolin Temple, known as the ...

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 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 ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Bodhidharma, a revered Buddhist monk who lived during 5th or 6th century is credited for transmitting Chan Buddhism (the Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism) in China. The word Chan ...

The former head of the Chinese temple known as the birthplace of kung fu has been arrested over suspicion of embezzlement, ...

Robots may not be the most traditional means of spreading Buddhist teachings, but one Chinese temple is giving it a go. By working with engineers and artificial intelligence experts from some of China ...

Chinese tourists celebrated this summer when it was announced that Larung Gar would soon be open to visitors again. Many had long dreamed of seeing the remote Tibetan Buddhist settlement, home to ...

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 ...

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 ...