The temple no longer exists. According to historical accounts of Dingzhou, during the Northern Song Dynasty a Buddhist monk, Hui Neng, of Kaiyuan Temple went on a pilgrimage to India for Buddhist ...

Some 12 miles from where the old master lay, in a valley just over the Song Mountains ... Shaolin Temple has helped foster an undeniable kung fu renaissance, which has coincided with China's ...

The pagoda, located in the northeastern comer of Yanzhou, was built in the Song Dynasty. The octagonal, thirteen-storeyed brick structure is fifty-four meters high. Its main feature is a smaller ...

characterised his temple's activities in China as "simple religious exchanges". As for why he led a delegation to meet Mr Song in Beijing, he described it as a "rare" networking opportunity for ...

The Great Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng is one of the most famous Buddhist monasteries in China. It was first built in AD 555, and became an important place for exchanging Buddhist culture between ...

In China, Song Binbin was the face of Cultural Revolution turmoil, the Red Guard who helped spark the deadly persecution of ...