Typically, East Asia is considered to encompass China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. In geopolitical terms, Vietnam is often categorized as part of Southeast ...

The vast majority of the world’s Buddhists live in the Asia-Pacific region, and Buddhism is a major part of culture and identity in many Asian societies. To further our understanding of Buddhism in ...

They spread first in East Asia to countries such as Vietnam, Korea and Japan. Zen is a popular form of Buddhism in all of these countries, but it was Japanese Zen Buddhism that attained global ...

As a scholar of Buddhism in East Asia, I study how people adapt Buddhism to their own cultural contexts.Bodhi Day is a good example of how Buddhists in different parts of Asia developed their own ...

Buddhism as a Cultural Ambassador Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology instead of coercion or violence. Buddhism has been India's cultural emissary ...

(RNS) — In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released Monday (June 17) by Pew Research Center.

(UPDATED) Pew survey of more than 10,000 adults in Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam examines Christians’ and Buddhists’ beliefs, practices, and affinity to other traditions.

According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, Buddhism is the only religion to have fewer believers in 2020 than in 2010, a drop of 18.6 million, largely due to a low birth rate in predom ...

From China, images of Cloth Bag as the Laughing Buddha traveled in two directions. They spread first in East Asia to countries such as Vietnam, Korea and Japan. Zen is a popular form of Buddhism ...