To gaze on a Kurkihar bronze is to be entranced by texture. Deep inside the cavernous bowels of the Bihar Museum in Patna, lit by soft, diffused overhead illumination, resides a small gallery of ...

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 ...

Just over a thousand years ago, on a Thursday in the year 1015, a scribe called Sujatabhadra signed off on an illustrated palm-leaf manuscript in a Buddhist monastery in Patan in Nepal’s Kathmandu ...

Some of LACMA’s most stunning sculptures and paintings were packed up more than eight years ago to prepare for construction of the museum’s new building. Now this art — Buddhist works from a vast ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

These spectacular works take us back to the foundations of early Indian art, says John Guy, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Two of the many recent finds of superlative Buddhist ...

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 ...