{"id":22982,"date":"2026-05-13T04:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=22982"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:25:43","slug":"watch-the-ancient-chinese-temple-named-after-emperor-ashoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2026\/05\/13\/watch-the-ancient-chinese-temple-named-after-emperor-ashoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The Ancient Chinese Temple Named after Emperor Ashoka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHINA, May 12, 2026 (The Hindu): The 1,700-year-old Emperor Ashoka Temple in Ningbo, China, is an ancient Buddhist site believed to date back to the year 282 and home to Buddha relics. The temple remains a rare symbol of centuries-old cultural and religious ties between India and China. This video explains the temple\u2019s history, significance and its unique connection to Emperor Ashoka.<br>Video:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/videos\/watch-the-ancient-chinese-temple-named-after-emperor-ashoka\/article70970436.ece\/amp\/\n\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/videos\/watch-the-ancient-chinese-temple-named-after-emperor-ashoka\/article70970436.ece\/amp\/<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHINA, May 12, 2026 (The Hindu): The 1,700-year-old Emperor Ashoka Temple in Ningbo, China, is an ancient Buddhist site believed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22989,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982\/revisions\/22989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}