An ancient Indian ivory carving of Buddha's life, a gift to Chinese monk Xuanzang in the 7th century, is a centerpiece at a ...

HEFEI, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Life's tough for China's younger generation. Finding jobs or spouses, and settling down in a sometimes tough and cruel world often lend itself to either giving up outright, ...

Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), during a time of great economic, political and cultural instability. With their economy struggling and their ethnic groups ...

Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese ...

BANGKOK (AP) — More than 2,000 people took part Wednesday in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha lent by China to a shrine in the Thai capital Bangkok to honor the birthday of King Maha ...

An archaeologist displays the standing statuette of the Gautama Buddha discovered in Xianyang, Shaanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua] What are thought to be China's oldest known bronze Buddha images have ...

A Ming Dynasty Buddha statue found on a roadside in Western Australia's Shark Bay region seven years ago could soon be ...

The Donglin Buddha statue is seen at the Donglin Temple in Xingzi County of Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, March 6, 2013. The bronze statue of Amitabha Buddha, which is 48 meters in ...

China has decided to enshrine what is being regarded as a Gautama Buddha skull in a tower that will be built on the ruins of a 14th century Ming dynasty structure. The official media said that the ...

Torrential rainfalls hit parts of China causing rising water levels and landslides. Worst hit was the western Sichuan province, where 100,000 people living on the Yangtze river were ordered to leave ...