Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

Those rituals included special meditative hand positions (mudras), paintings (mandalas), and mantras (chants ... Shinto shrines were often built close to or on the grounds of Buddhist temples, and ...

The gift included Buddhist art, notably icons and mandalas, objects related to Japanese noh theater and samurai culture ... and include an impressive number of 18th-20th century thangka paintings, ...

“It is an important discovery that Buddhist paintings were drawn on columns ... at “Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present,” which is currently ...

IKARUGA, Nara Prefecture—Japan’s oldest Buddhist paintings moved a step forward ... visiting professor of Japanese art at Tokyo University of the Arts, concluded the murals were no longer ...

She's not one to count how many hours she spends re-creating Goryeo Buddhist paintings, because for her, it is a way of practicing Zen. But Ven. Hyedam, 63, who, for more than four decades ...

A 17th-century monk etched 60,000 woodblocks with sutras to promulgate Buddhist teaching. The collotype printing technique faithfully reproduces Kyoto's famed works of art. One initiative uses the ...