Where it had previously been "enigmatically abstract", it started to become "incredibly accomplished at portraying the human ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Vietnam National Museum of History has recently opened its exhibition titled Dance of Zen Gate - Buddhist Art of the Ly ...

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 ...

Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient bronze statues depicting Buddhist spiritual figures — buddhas and ...