An image of a temple on a dramatic precipice has drawn the attention of people on Facebook. The image shows two house-like structures connected by a stone bridge on top of a mountain spire. In the ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s famed Shaolin Temple announced on Sunday that its abbot is under investigation for suspected embezzlement and “improper relationships” with women, reviving decade-old ...

ERSHUI, Taiwan — It was bad enough, villagers thought, when the kindly Buddhist nuns were forced out of their historic temple and longtime home. But what began as a bitter property dispute took a ...

Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than anywhere else At the foot of Zhongnan Mountain in the Chinese city of Xian, ...

STORY: Video shared on social media showed the statue at the Shandan Great Buddha Temple of Gansu province’s Shandan County burning in the early hours of Monday. After the fire was extinguished, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abbot of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, speaks at the famous Buddhist monastery in central China's Henan province on November 8, ...

Money, sex and a Buddhist monk: Head of China’s famed Shaolin Temple under investigation Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s famed Shaolin Temple announced on Sunday that its abbot is under investigation for ...