Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road.

"In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to ...

Editor’s Note: Sumnima Udas is CNN’s presenter of ‘The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future’, an epic journey from east to west along the ancient trade route, exploring how traditional culture, arts, and ...

When German economic historian and geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the phrase "Silk Road" in 1877 to denote the broad swath of Eurasia that is the focus of this year's Smithsonian ...

Last May, when our known world was one way, we began planning these stories. By last month, when we were finishing work on this issue, the world was another way. By Hanya Yanagihara LIKE OUR JOURNEY ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” sets the exotica of camels, caravans, silks and spices in a web of pathways ...