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

Buddhist temples vary in style and design, but they usually feature a main hall, a Buddha statue and space to meditate.

A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to ...

Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the ...

Rescue efforts are underway especially in the major stricken cities including the capital Naypyitaw, and the country's second ...

Whether you’re on your first trip to Asia or have a passport full of local stamps, it’s hard to beat the remarkable, ...

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

The Gounsa temple was reportedly originally built in 681 A.D. during the Shilla dynasty that ruled more than half of the ...

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...