These teachings can be applied in all areas of life, including family and relationships. A mother and child making an offering to a boy monk at a temple in Thailand. The early Buddhist scriptures ...

With the greater movement of the merchants and missionaries of the West, ethnographic accounts about Buddhist beliefs and practices in different Asian nations began to be written 16th century onwards.

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 ...

Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura is spreading the word that Buddhism preaches that all people can be liberated equally with no exceptions. So, Nishimura, 33, who is also a makeup artist and an ...

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a ...

Buddhism is the state religion and is referenced in the motto ... Sib and the other thousand monks continuing their education, but also thousands of poor students from all provinces, called monastic ...