This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The human skeletons were piled up like signposts in the sand. For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A ...

A former monk involved in a crash with teenagers disappears after offering help, leaving families to face rising medical ...

Buddhism, one of the world’s oldest belief systems, was transmitted from India through Central Asia and into China by monks traveling with merchants and diplomats along the Silk Road routes. Monks ...

Japanese monks have been skipping, skating and juggling to show how unrestrictive their traditional attire is. It comes after a monk was fined by police for driving while wearing a kimono because ...

The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey ... much of it spent as a fugitive and traveling under the cover of darkness. Xuanzang traveled along what we now know as the Silk ...