This week, just days before his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama assured followers that he will, after his death, be ...

China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who ...

“This is not,” he continues, “the China we used to know.” [ad number=“1”] No, it is not. Once officially atheist, China has roared with growth since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.

Regardless of the religion entrenched in China’s history, religious activity is mostly dormant in cities like Shanghai today besides the occasional, looming temple. From what I’ve heard from my ...

Islam is the most popular religion in China among young people despite a government crackdown on Ramadan and historic persecution of the Muslim Uighur minority, according to a new survey.

As the Chinese government tightens rules on religious citizens as a means of limiting Western influence on ... China narrows religion rules to ‘maintain social harmony’ March 1, 2018 5:20 PM ...

ZHENGDING, China -- In 1982, two men arrived in this dusty provincial town. One was Shi Youming, a Buddhist monk who was taking up a post in the ruins of one of Zhengding's legendary temples. The ...

Alongside China's astonishing economic boom, an almost unnoticed religious boom has quietly been taking place. In the country's first major survey on religious beliefs, conducted in 2006, 31.4 ...

The communists who took the reins in China in 1949 viewed religion as backward and superstitious. Authorities did their best to wipe out religious life. And by the end of the 1970s, they'd been ...

As scholar of Chinese religions Meir Shahar notes, novels such as “Journey to the West” served as a way to define and transmit an entire pantheon of deities all across the various regions of ...