This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The bronze image of Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara found from the premises of Sri Śangabodhi Vihāra at Veheragala in 1968 and now kept at the ...

THEIR country's booming economy in the past decade has spawned a legion of mainland Chinese collectors making their presence firmly felt in the contemporary art market. But of late, their appetite for ...

Buddhist art is a major area of interest in Asian art studies. With its beginning in ancient India, the propagation of Mahayana Buddhism to the present day Central Asia, China, Korea and then to Japan ...

What was the Buddha’s great wisdom, and how do the artworks of the Buddhist tradition convey it to us today? Buddhist art has been created over two millennia across India, China, Japan and throughout ...

Over its long, 2,500 year old history, the art of Buddhism has undergone many changes, while staying true, in essence, to the Buddha’s tenets of liberation and compassion. The ways that these changes ...

Here, a central tenet of Mahãyãna Buddhism, the doctrine of expedient means, is defended in light of the Quinian doctrine of ontological commitment. The need for such a doctrine arises because of ...

In 2001, when the Taliban blew up the monumental statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in Afghanistan, it marked a tragic low in the history of religious iconoclasm. The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, ...

A new exhibition of Buddhist art titled "Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet," is on display during a press preview event at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on September 16, ...

When it comes to hell, Buddhists are at something of an advantage. While torment may await those who stray from the path of righteousness, it needn’t be eternal. “The wonderful thing about Buddhist ...