The elegantly carved feline figures from the third century B.C., unearthed by the British in northern India, embody both ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

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.

TAWANG- The Gorsam Kora Festival, an annual celebration deeply rooted in the Himalayan Buddhist cultural heritage, is ...

By contrast, well-manicured Sarnath, one of Buddhism’s four holy sites, is an orderly place for contemplative commemoration, with remnants of monasteries and other Buddhist structures.

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Writing in the state-run Global Times, Zhu stated that the succession “is first and foremost an important political matter”, ...