This breathtaking moment captures a rare “Buddha’s Light” phenomenon encircling a hiker’s head on a mountaintop trail. On ...

As the birthplace of the Tiantai School of Buddhism, Tiantai’s Guoqing Temple attracts pilgrims from Japan, South Korea, and ...

Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than ...

Loans of the tooth as a show of friendship have been an effective form of soft diplomacy by China, even though competing claims from various countries on possessing the Buddha’s tooth raise ...

A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in ...

Tranquil Buddha. In a modest white palace overlooking the mile-wide Mekong sits worried 67-year-old King Sisavang Vong, afflicted with gout, but refusing all urgings that he leave his capital.

The gold Buddha statue is originally from China and dates back to the 11th or 12th century. It stands about 1.2 meters tall. Before being loaned to the Drents Museum and displayed in an exhibition ...

The 21-year-old San Antonio Spurs star is in “closed-door martial arts training,” an employee at Shaolin Temple in central ...

People take picture Buddha's sacred tooth relics, on loan from China, to the Royal garden in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) 31,228 people played the daily ...

BANGKOK — More than 2,000 people took part Wednesday in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha lent by China to a shrine in the Thai capital Bangkok to honor the birthday of King Maha ...