The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, a hub of ancient Chinese Buddhist art and spirituality, fell victim to extensive looting in the early 20th century. Today, the priceless relics taken from this sacred ...

But a new paper maps the widespread travels of a 16th-century Buddhist yogi from Rameswaram. He set out from Tamil Nadu but went as far as Zanzibar in the west and Macau in the east—a testimony ...

In front of the temple’s main hall stands a lantern of Buddhist angels. Others include those of the Monkey King of “Journey to West,” a Chinese novel from the 16th century, and dragon ...