Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

The first Buddhist temple in China was built here in Sichuan Province ... The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the ...

The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta ...

In 1978, a coup led by radical Marxists assassinated Afghanistan's first president; Tarzi's search for the sleeping Buddha was put on hold. Believing his life was in danger, Tarzi fled the country.

The five ascetics became his first five disciples. The Buddha taught continuously in the remaining 45 years of his life. He travelled around north-east India, teaching in a variety of dialects.