From ancient Buddhist texts and pottery figures to wooden and bamboo clips carved with characters and bricks with relief ...

The Chinese government venerates Kumarajiva not only for his contributions to Buddhism but also as a symbol of China’s ideological and geopolitical ambitions. A statue of Kumarajiva in front of ...

citing Chinese translations of Buddhist scripts in which “key figures such as Dasharatha and Hanuman were noted as Buddhist characters”. “A famous example is that Hanuman was transformed ...

it is widely accepted to be based on folk tales and oral accounts of a 16-year trip to India undertaken by Xuanzang (602-664), a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar, during the Tang dynasty.