This story goes that the Buddha, in a previous birth as a Bodhisattva, was a prince and sent to study at Taxila university.

Ōnodera’s main claim to fame stands just outside the temple grounds: a giant rock carving of the bodhisattva Miroku (Maitreya, the Buddha of the future), hewn into the cliff on the opposite ...

The artist’s current exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Birds in Far Pavilions, delicately weaves together art and memory.

KYOTO--Kiyomizudera temple here, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has kicked off its special autumn nighttime viewing, ...

Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, is going to inaugurate 'Shunyata'--an exhibition of paintings by Indian artist, poet, and diplomat Abhay K on November 29 at the ...

Seventeen stunning photos of Vietnam captured by renowned photographer Daniel Kordan have been pubilicised on Daily Mail, a ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, ...

Last week I was reading a paper written by my godson, Arlo, on Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground. Now, let’s pause for a ...

Did you know there’s a Yiddish word—"machetunim"—for your child’s in-laws? Imagine if we had words like this for all the ...

The Ocean Sutra is a 1,500-year-old Mahayana Buddhist manuscript that shows a strong influence of Tantrik Shaiva ideology. It ...

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Dharmakṣema, who hailed from Central India, was instrumental in the translation of important Buddhist texts to Chinese in 5th ...