The record of his pilgrimage helps us to study and understand Buddhism and the cultures along the Silk Roads. Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared futures for Asia and the world across policy, ...

As a scholar of East Asian Buddhism who studies how and why deities transform over time, I see the Laughing Buddha as a key ...

Part 2 of “The Nirvana Route”: How early encounters between India, China, and Southeast Asia shaped Asian civilization.

The record is impressive. But the major impact of Sinhalese culture was on Southeast Asia - on Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, southern Vietnam and the Yunnan province of China. Sinhala Bhikkhus ...