In preparation for the New Year, monks at Zentsuji Temple in the city of Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture,...
Entering a golden age a thousand years ago, Myanmar’s Bagan empire was home to dazzling structures that...
IKARUGA, Nara — Buddhist statues at the World Heritage-registered Horyuji temple here were dusted down on Dec....
You may wonder why the Buddha is so often depicted as chubby and laughing. The Laughing Buddha...
By Dale Quarrington You might not know the name of the statue. And you might not know...
The Chola dynasty— one of the longest-ruling dynasties in world history—has once again caught the public imagination....
The anthropomorphised Buddha made way for narrative reliefs depicting his life, replete with iconography borrowed from Graeco-Roman...
RELIGIOUS tourism is an important part of the tourism industry and is also called special interest tourism....
The Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts in Paris is displaying the fruits of a century of...
