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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers

By Stephanie Balkwill, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.

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