Though the edifices of Nalanda were largely reduced to mounds and the great monastery ceased to function in the early ...

By the time of the reign of the Northern Wei empire, both Taghbah and Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with ...

Staying true to its role as a cultural melting pot, the Hexi Corridor was where both Tibetan and Han Buddhism flourished. A ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she ...

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