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

IKARUGA, Nara Prefecture--Horyuji temple here will hold a limited public showing in May of its precious Buddhist mural paintings, which were scorched in a fire at the Kondo main hall in 1949 ...

The Buddhist prognostication is that a cure is indeed possible ... It seems possible to link Jukuchu’s 18th-century Japanese nature paintings to 19th-century European paintings romanticizing nature.

Want to relive that Japanese holiday, or get your eye in before you head overseas? You're in luck, because Melbourne is full of top-tier Japanese restaurants. Whether you’re craving sushi, ramen, ...

Marisa Chearavanont opens a new concept art institute, Khao Yai Art Forest, to transform Khao Yai, Nakhon Ratchasima, into a new destination for art lovers worldwide.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...