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Chinese religious groups warned of ‘hidden danger’ from foreign infiltration
United Front chief Li Ganjie’s message to faith groups follows Xi Jinping’s call to ‘sinicise’ religion in meeting with Tibet ...
China-appointed Panchen Lama vows to make Tibetan Buddhism more Chinese in meeting with Xi Jinping
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in ...
Former CSIS, RCMP investigators call for inquiry into Buddhist monks, nuns' Chinese connections
About 250 people packed into the P.E.I Convention Centre in Charlottetown Sunday to hear questions about Buddhist monks and ...
Calls grow for a public inquiry into Chinese connections of Buddhist monks and nuns
About 250 people came out for a book launch and documentary screening about the Buddhist monks and nuns living on P.E.I. — ...
China's Panchen Lama pledges loyalty to the Communist Party in a meeting with Xi
State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged ...
Religion News Service10mon
Who is the ‘Laughing Buddha’? A scholar of East Asian Buddhism explains
Cloth Bag was the nickname of a Chinese Buddhist monk who lived in the 10th century. He belonged to the Zen school of Buddhism, which is known for its stories about monks who reject conventional ...
Publishers Weekly15d
The Global Xuanzang
Xuanzang (602–664 AD), an illustrious monk in the Tang Dynasty, was one of the most important translators of Chinese Buddhism. His lifelong goal was to transmit the entirety of Indian knowledge to the ...
CNN15d
China-appointed Panchen Lama vows to make Tibetan Buddhism more Chinese in meeting with Xi Jinping
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen ...