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Month: August 2021

  • Asian Art Museum in US explores Korean culture through portraits

    The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is showcasing the first major exhibition of Korean portraits from past to present, exploring the identity and legacy of Korean history and culture. Titled “Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture,” the exhibition kicks off on Friday and runs through Nov. 29, featuring a variety of Korean portraitists from […]

  • Yungang Grottoes opens one more cave with statue of Buddha and his son

    After 40 days of digital information collection, No.19 cave, one of the earliest caves of Yungang Buddha Grottoes, opens to the public on Saturday with heartwarming statues of Sakyamuni and his son. The two statues were on the west wall of the cave, depicting the moment Sakyamuni meets his son Rahula. The huge statue of […]

  • UNESCO fears the fate of 800,000 art objects in the Afghan National Museum

    Colombo, August 23 (Ceylon Today): The Muslim fanatics’ absolute yearning to destroy everything opposed to what they mistakenly believe to be “Islam” has been witnessed at an unprecedented magnitude in the 21st Century. The vehemence of the hatred imbedded in the hearts of fanatics was displayed in two acts of destruction in the year 2001, […]

  • The destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas: How the Taliban obliterated the 6th-century monuments to deny their own past

    The destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas: How the Taliban obliterated the 6th-century monuments to deny their own past When the statues were finally turned into rubble, the Talibani terrorists jumped and pranced around in celebrations. They fired weapons in the air, and brought nine cows to slaughter as a sacrifice, Hussain told BBC in the interview. […]

  • In Thai manuscript paintings, chariots are more than just vehicles for transportation

    The chariot has special importance in religious traditions in Thailand, especially those related to royal ceremonies and funerals. Chariots figure prominently in South and Southeast Asian art and architectural decoration. Borrowed from the Sanskrit word ratha, the chariot is called rot in Thai and has special importance in religious traditions in Thailand, especially those related […]

  • Installation of Shakyamuni Buddha Statue on Sacred Tuvan Mountain Begins

    Installing the head of Shakyamuni Buddha on Dogee Mountain. From facebook.com The long-awaited installation of a golden Shakyamuni Buddha statue on the slopes of the sacred mountain Dogee in Tuva began in July, Sholban Kara-ool, chairman of theTuvan government announced on social media recently. The project has been realized by the residents of the Buddhist […]

  • Mumbai: Museum to preserve fifth century Buddhist relics from stupa in Sind

    The museum has 297 artefacts of the lost Kahu Jo Daro Buddhist stupa Mumbai: A year before its landmark centenary comes up in 2022, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Prince of Wales Museum) is preparing to unveil a lost treasure of Indian history. The museum will preserve and document its century-old collection of Buddhist […]