Found across Asia, these popular theme parks began as temple gardens that warned visitors of Buddhism’s many levels of hell—and the gruesome fates that awaited them there. Singapore’s Haw ...

The first comprehensive exhibition in the United States to explore portrayals of hell across the Asian religious traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam, Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian ...

Lumbini is the birthplace of the Buddha, which the project aimed to make a “Mecca for Buddhists”, with train links, an international airport, hotels and a Buddhist university. The news caused ...

The Buddha instructed him that on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month ... Among all the grisly figures, two legendary “hell envoys” emerged, famously known as the Heibai Wuchang, or the Black and ...

and terrifying visions of Buddhist hell. The Confucian virtue of filial piety finds its expression in a statue of a woman breastfeeding her starving, toothless mother-in-law. The giant blue crab ...

locked content beings Kuensel is abandon locked contentUsing Chorten way. the locked contentis Dorji abandon the locked contentway. Bumthang the underground locked contentabandon Dzong the Buddhism, ...

ignorance), and hell is obviously the worst of the lot. These are not all separate realms, but are interlinked in keeping with the Buddhist philosophy that mind and reality are linked. Thus ...

By ensuring that the Buddha’s teachings were transmitted across millennia, the religion helped develop and spread printing techniques around the world – as a new exhibition reveals. Do you ...