Buddhism as a Cultural Ambassador Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology ...

In the retrospective of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the NGV, we can see an aesthetic corpus grappling with the ...

Items seized in New York include pottery, jade, bronze and Tibetan Buddhist art, some dating back thousands of years.

The spiritual leader, who escaped from Lhasa on March 17, 1959, has written a new book in which is he is unapologetically ...

Zen Buddhism’s enigmatic teachings and its masters have influenced East Asian art, philosophy, and poetry for over a thousand years. However, the entire tradition traces itself back to one legendary ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in ...

In Montenegro and the wider Balkan region, there is a growing curiosity about international cultures, including China's.

From here, Buddhism spread to China and East Asia via the Silk Road ... undoubtedly Indo-Greeks would be among the greatest contributors. The art of Gandhara evolved from the Greco-Buddhist ...

BEIJING (AP) — Every year in early March, China’s rubber-stamp legislature and its advisory body gather to hear ...

This tradition is central to the identity of Tibetan Buddhism and is a source of spiritual authority for the Dalai Lama. The insistence on a successor born outside China reflects a desire to maintain ...

In his new book, the 14th Dalai Lama claims that his successor would be born in “a free world” which was outside China. China's foreign ministry has criticised the Dalai Lama after he claimed ...

Art historian Luckas Nickel had speculated that a Greek sculptor may have visited China to train the locals that made the Terracotta Army. Credit: kevinmcgill/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0 The ...