Several countries mark their new year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar involving movement of the Sun and Moon.

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was famously denounced as an “unmitigated rascal” by the New York Times in 1871. In Sri Lanka, however, he is still remembered as the revered legend of Buddhist revival—and, ...

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake.

Similar scenes played out after daylight in the morning at the Lama Temple in Beijing, a historic Tibetan Buddhist institution ... with performances by lion dance troupes and booths selling ...

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Other names include Vietnamese Tet, Korean Solnal and Tibetan Losar ... people have been drawn to the White Snake Temple to pay their respects. In Indonesia, it is celebrated with dragon puppets ...