A tea company is in hot water after Shenzhen officials deemed its latest marketing campaign to be “borderline” illegal. Hey Tea (喜茶, xǐ chá), a popular national beverage chain, recently partnered with the Jingdezhen China...
After a photo of memorial tablets for Japanese war criminals in Nanjing’s Xuanzang Temple went viral, China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs ordered religious groups across the country to conduct self-inspections and...
A new Human Rights Watch Report on the secret trials of four Tibetan monks has shed light on repression in Tibet. At The Guardian, Helen Davidson summarized HRW’s report on the raid against a small monastery in the foothills of...
Since 2014, the aging Dalai Lama has repeatedly suggested that he could be the last incarnation...
As part of the Chinese government’s national campaign to “Sinicize” religion, authorities...
The Chinese incarnation of the #MeToo movement gained momentum last week after several well known...
In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya...
Amid a renewed domestic interest in Buddhism, sacred Chinese Buddhist sites have in recent years...
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
U.S.-based democracy and human rights advocacy group Freedom House this week released the report...
As political appointments set the stage for one leadership transition in China, authorities are...
According to Xinhua, Chinese government-backed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu began a four-day...
The Mogao Caves in Gansu’s historic city of Dunhuang are a trove of Buddhist and Silk Road...
Addressing top government officials at a two-day national conference on religion this past...
At TIME, Yang Siqi reports on Buddhism’s role in the well-documented religious revival...
In a recent cartoon, Badiucao focuses on two ongoing cases related to the state control of...
The abbot of Henan’s Shaolin Monastery, the Chan Buddhist institution famous for being the...
The Wall Street Journal’s Wei Gu reports that some of China’s wealthy increasingly...
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