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 ...

Dr Ravia Gupta, Dr Smruti Smita Mohapatra “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it ...

Key Chinese practices this essay will cover are ancestral rites and divination, the teachings of the philosophers Confucius and Laozi, and Buddhism. Appreciating the complexity of this rich and ...

Vegetarianism is not a rule for all Buddhists; it is a unique product of Chinese Buddhism. The rule under which Chinese Buddhists eat vegetarian food dates back to the reign of Emperor Wudi in the ...

All had been paid for by the lama’s followers—including some wealthy Chinese women. Tibetan Buddhism, said the holy man, was becoming fashionable among sophisticated Chinese. "Some of it is ...

Ramayana in Chinese Buddhist Texts At a symposium on “Ramayana- A Timeless Guide” organised by the Indian Embassy here on Saturday, a host of Chinese scholars associated with longstanding ...

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 ...

While it was not fully incorporated as a complete work into the Han cultural sphere, parts of the epic were incorporated into ...