While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers ...

The most widely recognized set of Vishnu's avatars is the Dashavatara, which comprises ten principal incarnations: Matsya ...

An Antiques Roadshow expert had to delicately inform guests that their treasured sculpture, thought to be by Auguste Rodin, was in fact a "fake". The beloved BBC programme took its latest episode ...

After earning his BA from Catholic University in Washington DC, Puryear joined the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, and later attended the Swedish Royal Academy of Art. He received an MFA in sculpture ...

food remained a constant battle until I came across a little book called Buddha’s Diet: The Ancient Art of Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind’. Written by Zen follower Dan Zigmond along with Tara ...

Have you ever really looked at the face of the Buddha? I hadn’t. Not really. I have seen so many statues and paintings of the Buddha, at monasteries, lhakhangs, temples in Thimphu and all over Bhutan.

A statue of the dog character Gyoza-ken Jubee, dressed in a gyoza dumpling costume, was unveiled at JR Utsunomiya Station in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 1. Gyoza is a ...

Villagers clash with police as Ambedkar, Buddha statues removed from govt land in UP's Sitapur; 8 cops injured ABVP organises Ram Navami celebrations inside Jadavpur University campus in Kolkata ...

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The 12th-century sculpture the museum returned to Nepal is called “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda” and is about 17.5 inches tall. The Art Institute said it was stolen from the ...