A scholar of Buddhism explains authentic ways to engage deeply with the tradition, ranging from short meditation retreats to ...

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Buddhism, or remained Buddhist since childhood, in six countries. Pew ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

Penn Museum has made strides in conserving and renewing the artistic and cultural legacies of two Buddhist murals, both of ...

The Dubai International Art Centre is currently hosting Rang-De-Gulal, an exhibition celebrating India’s diverse folk art traditions. Organized by the Indian Folk Art Corridor, the event features 24 ...

My preoccupation with the hand started with seeing pictures of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, The Hand. It spoke as no words can. And, following that, I have never failed to notice hands in art ...

Officials informed that Buddhist communities, scholars, spiritual seekers, and tourists from around the world were expected ...

Long before social media and emails, artists of the Bengal School of Art in Shantiniketan used painted postcards to stay ...

Hitchcock thought it was his best depiction of a marriage.” Rice has been ­drawing, too, on the stage directions in Ernest Lehman’s original screenplay, which, she says, “are very sexual.

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu feature an ovoid belly that tapers into a high narrow neck and ends in a ...