The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
Mitsutake Ikeda In a historic moment for South India, the region's first Peace Pagoda was officially inaugurated on February ...
In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.
Writing in the state-run Global Times, Zhu stated that the succession “is first and foremost an important political matter”, ...
Strings dominate this month’s edition of Rum Music, as Jennifer Lucy Allan presents guitars like galloping stallions, ...
Armed with anecdotes, historical evidence, maps and slides, the author-historian outlined India's ancient soft power in his ...
Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.
A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh has found renown for opening its doors to the needy during Ramadan -- a beacon of ...