An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly ...

They have come from Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan among other nations ...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has stressed the need for global peace, saying the world does not need war, but the ...

“Josef is now an ardent devotee of Buddhism and visits to ... he greatly cherished the Aukana Buddha statue, which considered is a masterpiece in the art of sculpture. While attending to ...

Robert Wright describes a central scene in The Matrix in his bestselling 2017 book, Why Buddhism Is True: “Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne), explains the situation to Neo: 'You are a ...

Usually, nuns are expected to cook and clean and are not allowed to practise any form of martial art. But Gyalwang Drukpa ... Jigme Konchok Lhamo, 30, from India, said her main goal was to achieve ...

The nuns come from Bhutan, India and Nepal and are all trained in gongfu, the Chinese martial art for self-defence ... enlightenment like Lord Buddha, who founded Buddhism 2,600 years ago.

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...

The mudras, or hand positions, of Buddhist images carry symbolic meaning, often expressing key aspects of the Buddha’s teachings. Two important mudras can be observed in the Great Buddha.

Photo: Reuters Usually, nuns are expected to cook and clean, and are not allowed to practice any form of martial art, but Gyalwang Drukpa ... Jigme Konchok Lhamo, 30, from India, said her main goal ...