He is made of red Mathura sandstone ... band of sculpture, geometric designs and verdure wrapped around its midriff, I was reminded of the power of the image of the Buddha. Sacred images in ...

Keith Wilson, a curator at the Freer, considers “Cosmic Buddha” the centerpiece of “Promise of Paradise,” the gallery’s exhibition of early Chinese Buddhist sculpture. The “Cosmic ...

Over the centuries significant pieces of the Chinese sculpture, known as Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Existence, or Cosmic Buddha, were lost including the head, hands ...

Here, the clue that the sculpture shows the moment of Buddha’s awakening is the gesture he is making with his right hand. When the demon Mara – who in Buddhist cosmology is associated with ...

In February of this year, at the Piazza Della Scala in Milan, the artist exhibited BUDDHA IN CONTEMPLATION, a similarly invisible sculpture demarcated by a square of tape on a cobble-stoned walkway.

A headless sculpture of Buddha, dating back to 10th century AD, has been found at Manalur village in Thanjavur district.It was found based on information given by a school teacher. CHENNAI ...

A 10th century Buddha sculpture was found in Alampur, a temple town in Jogulamba-Gadwal district. The sculpture measures three feet in width and hight and four inches in thickness carved in relief ...

The 12th-century sculpture the museum returned to Nepal is called “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda” and is about 17.5 inches tall. The Art Institute said it was stolen from the ...

Donation Options Search Search Search This 12th century Nepali sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” regularly displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1997 ...