The Buddhist deities depicted here have round faces, thick lips, deep-set eyes and high-bridged noses. Their physiques are ...

This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had long included the ... cultures had become deeply familiar with ...

Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han ... As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official ...

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHINA DAILY Staying true to its role as a cultural melting pot, the Hexi Corridor was where both Tibetan and Han Buddhism flourished ... to propel the Chinese dynasty to greatness, transforming ...