Photos reveal an ornate model of a stupa, or a chest used for meditation, beneath a temple in China. The stupa holds the skull bone of the Buddha himself.

Beijing [China], July 15 (ANI): Hundreds of mosques and Islamic shrines have been destroyed by China in recent years, as Beijing aims to erase the Islamic culture associated with the Xinjiang ...

A 1,000-year-old model of a stupa holding a bone that inscriptions say belongs to the Buddha has been discovered in a Buddhist temple crypt.

To buddhist pilgrims, the Tiger Pagoda of Tanzhe Temple is a monument to a miracle. They believe that this stupa, in Beijing’s pine-clad western hills, marks the tomb of a tiger so touched by a ...

In the desert outside Kashgar, an oasis city in the far-western region of Xinjiang, an ancient Buddhist stupa rises out of the sand. Because of its conical shape, it is known as Mo’er, the word ...

The exchange highlighted how the process of identifying the next Dalai Lama could add fresh tensions to relations between the two countries.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Friday (20), announced the commencement of the construction of a temple and a Stupa in Hinan Province, China, designed to embody traditional Sri Lankan architectural ...

To date, excavations cover 3,900 square meters. The two existent structures are a stupa in the center of the site, and a pagoda with a square-shaped base in the northernmost section.

Nevertheless, Miaoying Temple retains historic grandeur and landmark status, largely thanks to its dominant, sun-reflecting, 50.9-metre-tall Buddhist stupa, known in the area as the White Dagoba.

The stupa and the temple next to it were probably built some 1,700 years ago and abandoned a few centuries later. Chinese archaeologists started excavating the site in 2019.

President Biden said he met with China's No. 2 at the G20 summit in India. Chinese President Xi Jinping did not attend.