In our series looking at key women of the Buddhist scriptures, we look at the character of Mahapajapati Gotami. She was the Buddha's foster mother as well as his maternal aunt. Legend has it that at ...

A new project that aims to aid in the return of Chinese historical and cultural relics scattered in Japan was launched in Japan on Tuesday. Among the first batch of relics to be returned to their home ...

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has launched a two-year project to study and preserve a bundle of Buddhist scriptures that were written on leaves more than 1,000 years ago and brought to the ...

Gounsa Temple, a thousand-year-old temple founded by the Unified Silla monk Uisang, is emerging as a central hub for Korean Buddhist culture and classical literature research following a large-scale ...

Yin Shun , reflecting on the ten-year journey of the BFA Religious Sub-forum, noted its steadfast commitment to the foundational goal of building a global community united by a common destiny. The sub ...

Another in our series looking at key women of the Buddhist Scriptures: Sanghamitta lived 300 years after the Buddha and was the daughter of the Emperor King, Ashoka. At a certain point in his life he ...

The Temple of Haeinsa, on Mount Kaya, is home to the Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete collection of Buddhist texts, engraved on 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1248. The buildings of Janggyeong ...

China has launched a two-year project to study and preserve rare Buddhist Sanskrit scriptures of Indian origin that were written on leaves more than 1,000 years ago and brought to Tibet, the state ...