The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

In February 2013, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm’s national museum of modern art, opened a blockbuster show, “Hilma af Klint: ...

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...

Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist ...

The area has been among the hardest hit by the fires. The 1,300-year-old Gounsa temple, which is located in Uiseong city, was ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

The Korea Forest Service said firefighters were fighting at least five active fires nationwide as of Wednesday morning.

South Korean firefighters appear closer to containing the largest wildfires in the country's southeastern regions, after the ...

According to the Commissioner of Food Safety and Drug Administration Department, the state government has prepared a special action plan to maintain food safety at Char Dham Yatra and tourist places ...

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

Japanese macaques fall asleep while bathing in a hot spring in Jigokudani, Japan. Photograph By Jasper Doest, Nat Geo Image Collection The 1998 Winter Olympics put Nagano on the map as a year ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha ... where the statue’s head was found 98 years before.