This book is designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each painting, building, or artifact in terms of the iconography and symbolism of the Buddhist religion.

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 ...

The Mathura school grew in Uttar Pradesh and carved a confident, rooted Indian image of the Buddha. Artists used local red ...

Institutions from the Newark Museum to the Rubin Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum recognize the presently growing need for compassionate spaces. Image of the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the ...

Cut from a sheer cliff face nearly a thousand years ago, India's Ajanta Caves are home to sacred Buddhist spaces adorned with vibrant works of ancient art. Carved in timeThe Buddhist cave temples near ...

A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

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 ...

For the Xiang-Dong Buddhist Art Museum, Jiakun Architects crafted a new home for an important collection of Buddhist icons inside the envelope of an old factory. In doing so, the firm juxtaposed the ...

Restoring Afghanistan's Buddhist artifacts that were destroyed by the Taliban 18 years ago is like working on a 1,500-year-old jigsaw puzzle, say conservators working on the latest restoration project ...