The arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century forced the Japanese ... Buddha was swept away by a tidal wave in the late fifteenth century, but the bronze figure remains, sitting outside ever since ...

The curved roofs of a Buddha temple rise above this beautiful, exotic park - in a west-German industrial city! The Ekō House is a Japanese community ... years ago to study sculpture at the ...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced Monday it would return a 12th century Nepali sculpture of the Buddha to Nepal. The museum is collaborating with the government of Nepal for the return of the ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his ... in fact more Buddhist sculpture and architecture comes from Gandhara than from any other part of ancient ...

This 12th century Nepali sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” regularly displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1997, is heading back to its country of origin.

This sculpture has been determined to match a sculpture of the Buddha’s head that was discovered at the same location in 1927, during the French colonial era. The head is preserved at the Angkor ...

"I am very happy," he tells SBS Japanese. The artist says, unlike his usual sculpture, which involves digging out stones or welding metal, the installation of light artwork in a public space is ...

Finally, Japanese learned about Buddhism by reading Chinese texts and built major temples throughout the city of Nara. Emperor Shōmu, who ruled during the middle of the Nara period, was a devoutly ...

The sacred sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” measures about 17.5 inches by 13 inches and was carved from schist, a dark metamorphic rock. As part of “ongoing ...

The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda, will be returned to its home country after provenance research at the ...