The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...
Buddhist temples vary in style and design, but they usually feature a main hall, a Buddha statue and space to meditate.
Our writer searches for tradition amid the high-rise modernity of China’s largest city, 25 years after her first visit ...
Many people visit Chiang Rai on a day tour – after all, from Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai it’s only three hours on a comfortable ...
A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to full ordination as a monastic.
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...
More than 10,000 firefighters, police and civil servants have been deployed to battle dozens of wildfires raging in South Korea. Fueled by dry air and strong winds, the ...