The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

Watching quietly from the side-lines is the Venerable Dhammananda – female, and a Buddhist monk since 2003. Although the Sangha bars women from ordination, there are now around 100 bhikkhunis ...

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Many Buddhist monks and nuns choose a life of ... a female Tibetan Buddhist teacher says: "modern women in the Sangha are re-energising ancient traditions".

“Konjaku Monogatarishu” (Anthology of Tales from the Past), written during the late Heian Period (794-1185), features many distinguished Buddhist monks who may have possessed supernatural power ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan, on Sunday emphasised the profound historical and cultural connections between the ancient region of Gandhara and Japan, particularly in ...