GANSU- A number of foreign journalists from different countries visited Mogao Caves in Dunhuang city in China’s northwestern ...

Staying true to its role as a cultural melting pot, the Hexi Corridor was where both Tibetan and Han Buddhism flourished. A ...

While dragon iconography is far from unique in Chinese architecture and art, a ceramic dragon ... inner city and discovering the Tang Dynasty temple where the dragon was found in 2023 as well as other ...

With its five flat peaks, Mount Wutai is a sacred Buddhist mountain. The cultural landscape is home to forty-one monasteries and includes the East Main Hall of Foguang Temple, the highest surviving ...

Enchin founded the Tendai Jimon sect after bringing back the teachings of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism from the Tang Dynasty. Designated as a national treasure, the documents include the actual pass ...

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.

On a high mound, it seems to rise into the sky. Big Wild Goose Pagoda was first built in 652 in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang, a prominent Buddhist scholar of the time, planned to have a huge stone ...