While dragon iconography is far from unique in Chinese architecture and art, a ceramic dragon ... inner city and discovering the Tang Dynasty temple where the dragon was found in 2023 as well as other ...

Staying true to its role as a cultural melting pot, the Hexi Corridor was where both Tibetan and Han Buddhism flourished. A ...

For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road ... and horses moving east to the Tang dynasty capital of Changan, among the largest cities in the world. What kept Xuanzang going, he wrote ...

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 ...

It is one of the eight famed temples in Fanchuan in the Tang Dynasty, a National Key Buddhist Temple, and a Key National Cultural Relics Protection Unit. Qinglong Temple, also known as Stone Buddha ...

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 ...

With its five flat peaks, Mount Wutai is a sacred Buddhist mountain. The cultural landscape is home to forty-one monasteries and includes the East Main Hall of Foguang Temple, the highest surviving ...