When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders ... life was “dirty” and “impure,” the bell as a symbol for a Buddhist temple, the ...

Enchin founded the Tendai Jimon sect after bringing back the teachings of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism from the Tang Dynasty. Designated as a national treasure, the documents include the actual pass ...

They looked to Tang Dynasty rulers in order to use their experiences to strengthen their states. Early Tang emperors, like ...

In ancient Eastern philosophy, thought holds transformative power. Master Huineng, a revered Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, observed, "If one thought is deluded, it leads to reincarnation; if one thought ...

Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to rule as emperor, remains a figure of fascination and debate. Born in 624 ...

In the Tang Dynasty, it was rebuilt and repaired on ... which represents the Buddhist faith. In Liao Dynasty, the temple stood in the most flourishing market district of the imperial city; thus ...

On a high mound, it seems to rise into the sky. Big Wild Goose Pagoda was first built in 652 in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang, a prominent Buddhist scholar of the time, planned to have a huge stone ...

Foremost among these was Buddhism, born in India ... the period between the collapse of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) and the rise of the Tang dynasty (618–906) and only on the stretch of the ...