This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had ... deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they ...

Astonishingly the bell was cast entirely with Buddhist sutras and incantations in Han and Sanskrit languages ... order of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. Besides, there are more than 100 ...

It was estimated that the characters were written during the Northern Han Dynasty, when the pagoda was first built. In 1949, under the sponsorship of Buddhist circles of Beijing, preparations were ...

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.

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.