Just as Christianity has its Vatican in Rome, modern Daoism boasts of a unique center of religious authority and administration: the Temple of the White ...

Whereas the discovery by Europeans of the continents of our earth has been the subject of countless studies and its protagonists (such as Columbus) are ...

As China is rapidly reemerging as the world's dominant economic powerhouse that it had been until the mid-eighteenth century, interest in its religions ...

Schopenhauer's favorite book was a particular version of the Indian Upanishads. He encountered it just before he found the centerpiece of his philosophical ...

Although the Western encounter with Asia’s largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its ...

It is little known that Richard Wagner was among the very first Westerners to appreciate Buddhism and that he was the first major European artist to be ...

Meister Yunmen Wenyan (864–949), der Gründer einer der fünf Schulen des chinesischen Zen (Chan), war ein Gigant unter den großen ...

È poco noto che Richard Wagner fu tra i primi occidentali ad apprezzare il buddismo e il primo grande artista europeo ad ispirarsi a questa religione. ...