The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
Taihong Ouyang, 49 – who faces hate crime burglary and criminal mischief charges – was granted supervised release as he ...
The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...
it is widely accepted to be based on folk tales and oral accounts of a 16-year trip to India undertaken by Xuanzang (602-664), a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar, during the Tang dynasty.
The Silk Road was booming, Buddhism was flourishing, and Dunhuang was paying fealty to the Chinese capital. The Tang cave painters displayed a fully confident Chinese style, covering whole walls ...
The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile asserts the recognition of lamas' reincarnations is a Tibetan tradition, rejecting China's ...
Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.