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 ...

Wu Zetian was a fifth-grade concubine in the Chinese royal harem in the 7th century who rose to become China's only empress.

Had it been centrally governed like today, India, too, could have been a thalassocracy as were once Athens, Carthage, Great ...

Xuanzang’s epic journey to one of India’s largest early centres of learning. An excerpt from William Dalrymple’s latest book ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The human skeletons were piled up like signposts in the sand. For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A ...

Artwork from the 800s depicts Buddhist monk Xuanzang on his 10,000-mile journey to track down holy texts in India two centuries earlier. Photograph by Pictures from History, Bridgeman Images The ...

It was built in 669 during the Tang Dynasty to bury Buddhist priest Xuanzang's remains. In 828 it was rebuilt as it is today. The five-storey brick pagoda has a square ground plan, with each side ...

The game sold more than 10 million copies within three days, becoming the most successful Chinese game of all time.

Mythology is one of the best settings for any story, fictional, non-fictional, or otherwise. We've been steeped in myths from ...

[1] An area in northern China that has never been a tourist hotspot is now attracting crowds. It is all thanks to the popular ...

The anime follows the same basic storyline as the novel and includes Goku as one of the guardians intended to guide the monk Xuanzang to India. The show is also entitled Adventures of the Monkey ...

At a time when the world is facing a host of challenges, ranging from climate change to violent conflicts, it is important to ...