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 ...

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, ...

From at least the third century B.C., Buddhist ritual focused on stupas, stylized replicas of the mounds of earth in which early Buddhists interred relics of the Buddha. Beginning in the first century ...

Detail of a door lintel portraying the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshwara dancing, from Lakhisarai in Bihar.(Bibek Bhattacharya) To gaze on a Kurkihar bronze is to be entranced by texture. Deep inside the ...

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 ...

How the museum and Indian institutions overcame eight years of physical and diplomatic challenges to bring 125 rare Buddhist art works to New York. By Rachel Sherman What weighs more than 4,000 pounds ...

McArthur, curator of East Asian Art at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, has set for herself no small task: to create a concise, accessible primer to the intricate world of Buddhist art. She ...

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 ...

Hong Kong unveiled its first Buddhist Art Museum this week at the Tsz Shan Monastery in Tai Po. Hong Kong’s richest citizen, Li Ka-shing, now a 90-year-old billionaire, conceived of the monastery in ...

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 ...

Hong Kong’s richest man is opening a multi-million-dollar Buddhist art museum at a monastery in the territory. Business tycoon Li Ka-shing has a long history of philanthropy, having contributed ...

NEW YORK, February 10, 2015 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum, shares her insights into a bronze bell, dating from 1884, featured in the ...