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

Menander later left Pataliputra and formed his frontier south of Mathura. The Milinda-panha ... An Indo-Chinese tradition, connects Menander with the origin of the most famous statue of Buddha in Indo ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

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.

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like many in the region, including the famed Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, is due ...

Mathura: A video of a city magistrate allegedly manhandling a government employee has gone viral on social media, drawing widespread criticism from the netizens. The incident took place in Mathura ...

Two giant cavities about a half-mile apart in the rock face mark the sites where two huge sixth-century statues of the Buddha, destroyed a decade ago by the Taliban, stood for 1,500 years.

The Nasher Sculpture Center has appointed Carlos Basualdo as its next director. Basualdo, 60, comes to Dallas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he rose through the ranks over 20 years to ...