For Ryushun Kusanagi, Buddhism is more than a religion, as it can serve as a philosophy of life to cope with modern daily ...

The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

Shodo, the Japanese calligraphy art, is an interesting part of Japanese culture that blends art with language. The ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...

Jansari says that, for her, this commonality is expressed most articulately through devotional art that goes back to the ancient roots of the religions, which still finds its way into current ...

Buddhism and Jainism — through the devotional sculptures of ancient India, particularly the period 200BC to AD600, and how the evolution, and global spread, of these faiths was reflected in its art.

With its deep historical and cultural roots, Buddhism has made an enduring impact on global art, literature ... Located in Bihar, India, these ancient centers of Buddhist scholarship have yielded ...

For Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism alike ... played out for a century-and-a-half as 800 hardy monks turned rock into art. Kailasa was built in reverse. The roof was hollowed out first, then ...

Workers installing an underground drainage system beneath a Buddhist temple in northeastern Thailand have uncovered a trove of ancient Buddhist ... period Buddhist art, a tradition tied to the ...

Statue of a Resting Goat. Body: late 1st century, Roman, Imperial period. Head attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). (Lorenzo De Masi/Torlonia Collection, Rome/Torlonia Foundation ...

which examines the region's devotional art reaching back more than 2,000 years, and tells "a passionate story about the three great religions of ancient India – Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism ...