Drawing on the National Museum of Asian Art's collections and collecions from across the Smithsonian, artworks spanning two millennia reveal Asia's rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse ...

Stunning candle art display was showcased at a Buddhist festival in northern India. Niranjana Deepotsav was held at Maya ...

Though much of the art of the Silk Road was created to encourage religious devotion, today we value it also as a source of precious historical information. Buddhist cave murals often, for example, ...

Archeology expert Dr Sivanagi Reddy says 105 monks, including 88 from US, Sri Lanka and southeast Asian countries who visited ...

Carolyn Wargula is Assistant Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Japanese Buddhist art with a focus on the materiality and intermediality of textiles, the social significances of the body ...

Bodh Gaya (or Buddha Gaya as it is called in Sri Lanka), is the place where the Buddha attained Enlightenment. It was a major ...

Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient ...

A total of 105 Buddhist monks, including 88 from America, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, participated in ...

“It is an exhibition dedicated to Buddhist and Shinto art that only the Nara National ... “We want to reaffirm our 130-year history and its significance,” Inoue said. The exhibition will ...

According to archaeologists, Gandhara, an ancient region spanning the present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, was a centre of Buddhist learning and art. Terasawa explained that Swat valley ...