A Buddhist monk in Japan has begun a 12-year period of solitary retreat as he undertakes to care for the tomb of the founder of Tendai Buddhism.
An eighth-century monastery in Thailand’s Nakhon Si Thammarat Province has officially become Thailand’s ninth UNESCO World Heritage Site.
UNESCO recognizes one of Buddhism’s four principal pilgrimage destinations in northern India
World Heritage Watch (WHW) has sounded the alarm over a controversial proposal to add a chattra finial to the main stupa of Borobudur Temple.
Should Indonesia install a new crown atop its greatest Buddhist site? A Dutch engineer from colonial times can inform the debate
Calling for the Mahabodhi Temple to be placed under Buddhist administration, Indian minister Ramdas Athawale pledged to lead a protest rally in October.
The maritime silk road city of Quanzhou is home to important Buddhist temples and an array of diverse religious sites
The Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Singapore organized a celebration of the historical legacy of the Buddha, with an exhibition of the Kapilavastu Relics.
Youth delegations from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, and Thailand participated in the 2023 Korean Buddhist Cultural Tour from 30 August–2 September.
The Nepali government and two Singaporean groups will be working together to preserve one of Nepal’s most important and earliest stupas
China’s first and only female emperor, Wu Zetian, left behind a remarkable legacy of esoteric and Huayan Buddhism and beyond
Nepal held a formal ceremony on Monday to inaugurate the newly restored Shree Napichandra Mahavihara, a fifth-century Buddhist shrine and monastery.
