The tale of a former Buddhist monk turned fraudster is ... He used his reputation as a former monk to scam over 200 Chinese investors out of millions of dollars. Dargey was sentenced to prison ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The mummification process is part of a Buddhist tradition that honors faithful monks. Produced by Maya Dangerfield. Images courtesy of AP and Reuters. Follow TI ...

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said the choice of a successor should be made according to traditional practices and that lamas, in which monks would conduct the search, setting up a clash with Beijing’s ...

it is widely accepted to be based on folk tales and oral accounts of a 16-year trip to India undertaken by Xuanzang (602-664), a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar, during the Tang dynasty.

The Chinese call them Mogaoku ... had been converted to Islam, and Buddhist monks placed tens of thousands of manuscripts and paintings in a small side chamber adjoining a larger Mogao grotto.

Ancient Chinese architecture boasts a rich variety ... Later, the remains of other Buddhist monks of high reputation were also called sarira. Since more often than not, no such precious shiny ...

Chinese authorities have recently dealt a blow to the major hub of Tibetan Buddhist learning by expelling more than 1,000 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, according to ...

That morning a Buddhist monk went out and sat down in a main intersection ... many things to many different people and interests. The Chinese and the North Vietnamese regarded it as a wonderful ...

UNESCO’s executive board on May 24 approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891) for inclusion. Enchin founded the Tendai Jimon sect after bringing back the teachings of Chinese ...

BANGKOK — A local resistance group fighting against Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...

Even as far back as around 637, a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar and traveller called Xuanzang visited Varanasi. He reported the town to be a centre of religion, education and the arts.