Nestled in the mountainous forests of Quang Ninh provine, the Ngoa Van Pagoda and Hermitage Complex stands as a revered spiritual destination. This is the sacred site where King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong ...

China has banned mining on mountains sacred to Buddhists after protests from monks that the exploitation was damaging ancient temples and violating holy sites, the official Xinhua news agency ...

In China, religion is big business. The famed Shaolin Temple owns dozens of companies and its abbot is popularly known as the "CEO monk." Two of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains are publicly ...

As one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China, Mount Emei boasts 76 Buddhist monasteries,dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of which are located near the mountain top.

Three Sacred Mountains is located in Daocheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. From the meandering ranges, emerge the three sacred mountains of Daocheng: Xiannari ...

The fourth of China’s sacred mountains, Emei Shan in Sichuan province, completed a public listing in Shenzhen in 1997, under the incredibly auspicious ticker symbol “888.” ...

Legend has it that it's over 2,600 years old, making it the oldest Buddhist stupa in the world. With its bejewelled spire and relics of four Buddhas, this is not just a religious site-it's an icon.

At that time, I was working on a project to build a Buddhist social media platform that aimed to connect with temples across the country. The slogan was “One thousand temples on one platform to offer ...

This article carefully examines the roles that sacred mountains play in Mescalero Apache religious tradition and "religious paradigms" of sacred space and ceremonial practice. For the Mescalero, ...

Korean Buddhist monks had searched for the “Sinjungdo,” a sacred painting, for nearly 35 years before finding it in the collection of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. via ...