Strawberry Fanta, also known as "Fanta red water," is almost always found outside of the small shrines called spirit houses ...

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

Lotus Sculpture unveils handcrafted Hindu Gods & Buddha statues, blending sacred art with decor to inspire peace, devotion, and timeless spiritual beauty ...

Walk into any Indian temple or flip through a book of Hindu mythology, and you're likely to find yourself face-to-face with a divine figure boasting ten arms, multiple heads, or riding a majestic ...

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.

In Buddhism, gods are part of the natural order but the natural order is an illusion, Maya. "Folk Buddhism" like all folk religions is a product of the uneducated.

However, Buddhism later incorporated deities into its cosmology. A particularly popular one is the benign goddess Tara. As in Hinduism, Buddhists believe in reincarnation and the law of karma ...

Buddhism’s Influence on Greek Philosophy. In his book, Pyrrhonism: How the ancient Greeks reinvented Buddhism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2008), Adrian Kuzminski, a scholar, provides plausible ...

A statue of Mahakala, a wrathful Buddhist deity, is wheeled out as monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism perform a ritual dance called Cham at the Palpung Sherabling monastery ...

Many Hindu deities are actively worshipped in Japan, with hundreds of shrines dedicated to them. ... This reflects his role as a defender of the Buddhist faith and a protector of the country. 8 / 8 ...

In the Nara period (710–94), belief in the serpent as the deity of water was conflated with devotion to Benzaiten, the Buddhist protector deity, sharing many similarities with Saraswati, a river ...