Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a temple nearly 35 years ago.

Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek ...

NEW YORK — “Tree & Serpent,” an exhibition of early Buddhist art from India at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 13), put me in a strange and beautiful state. Packed with precious ...

At the press opening for the Metropolitan Museum’s beyond-beautiful “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.,” five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the ...

Art from the Indian subcontinent underwent a profound transformation between 200BC and AD600. The imagery which depicted gods, goddesses, supreme preachers and enlightened souls of three ancient ...

NEW YORK, April 17, 2017 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on ...

The paintings traditionally are executed on cotton or silk, and usually portray a Buddhist deity scene or mandala. They are painted with watered pigments, though the colors are bright and the ...

"When we're making the mandala, our intention is for blessing, you know," Buddhist monk Geshe Tsewang Punchok said. Punchok is one of four monks creating a mandala by 'painting' with sand.

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life. By Jackson Arn. January 2, 2025 “Mandala of ...

Four Buddhist monks are creating a mandala in the lobby of the Crow Museum of Asian Art at University of Texas at Dallas by painting with sand. Here's how you can see it before it's gone.

The Art of Living Social Projects, led by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, hosted a cultural festival in Kolkata. The event ...