With four scowling faces, 12 eyes, 12 arms, numerous weapons, skulls adorning the rim of his crown, severed heads dangling from his waist, human figures crushed beneath his feet and his consort ...

Buddhist Deities: A Primer. Asian Arts expert Lark Mason overviews this expansive topic. Apr 27, 2009. ... This mudra represents peace, protection and the dispelling of fear.

Buddhism is a distinctive world religion. It lacks an 'omnigod' — an omnipresent, omniscient, all-powerful creator — and a notion of humans as complexes of physical bodies and souls that ...

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening at the Brooklyn Museum, where it features both familiar treasures ...

The four patches show the Four Heavenly Kings, protector deities in Buddhism who guard against evil forces in the four cardinal directions, according to the Kyoto National Museum.

Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. March 2, 2025 at 10:45 JST ...

The dances of two deities were introduced in a major Buddhist monastery in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district on Thursday. These monastic dances will be an annual feature after 11-12 lunar ...