While China promotes its version of Buddhism globally, it continues to suppress religious freedoms domestically, particularly in Tibet, where protests and self-immolations have been met with harsh ...

Prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholar, Geshe Rachung Gendun was released from Chinese custody after serving three and a half years in prison, reported Tibet.net. However, his health severely deteriorated ...

At that time, it was only the learned men of China who knew of Buddhism – since the message of the Buddha arrived with traders and travellers – while the dominant religion of the country was ...

Buddhism had spread to China from India through the ancient Silk ... a professor of East Asian Religions at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In a 2004 paper titled The ...

Buddhist monks and merchants spread the religion to the north, east and south, and by the fourth century C.E. it was well established in China. China already had its own religious and ...

Interplay of religion and secularism in Ramayana's ... to the Hindu context of the Ramayana and the predominance of Buddhism in China, the epic was not fully translated or widely disseminated ...

With over 10 million tourists generating billions in revenue annually, religious activities are closely monitored by the Buddhist Association for China (BAC), the CCP’s religious overseer.

The trip, which has not been confirmed by Beijing or Kathmandu, comes months before the Dalai Lama is expected to unveil a ...

This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular ...