In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Bhutan is a tiny, remote Himalayan kingdom nestled between China and India. It has no traffic lights. Here's why it may be ...

The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in ...

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.

Armed with anecdotes, historical evidence, maps and slides, the author-historian outlined India's ancient soft power in his ...

Torso of Buddha statue unearthed at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia. TA PROHM, CAMBODIA—Archaeologists discovered the torso of a ...

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an ...

To sit down and meditate or kneel down and pray is possibly the most radical option we have. Finding silence and stillness ...

Making the dragon and elephant dance is the only right choice,” says China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi as he extends a ...

Here is a look at the life of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Buddhist spiritual leader of the people of Tibet. Personal Birth date: July 6, 1935 Birth place: Taktser, Amdo, Eastern T ...

Hindu monastics Brahmacharini Durga and Sudarshan Sundar discussed their personal paths into Hindu monasticism at a Harvard ...