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When Alex Zhu, a native of China’s Shandong province, studied in Europe in 2017, she had many fights with her classmates ...

Koyasan (高野山) is one of Japan’s most significant places when it comes to Buddhism, and a beautiful place to visit. From ...

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The Arakan Army is now estimated to control eight-tenths of the province of Rakhine, raising speculation the region could be ...

For the Neo-Confucian Kumazawa Banzan, the decadence and decline of his society was the result of incompetent and venal ...

Is a civil, functioning democracy as much a fantasy as a world of magic, elves and fairies? This is the troubling question ...

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In the Theravada form of Buddhism followed in Southeast Asia, Gautama’s enlightenment is commemorated along with his birth ...