“Buddhist Sculpture From Xiangtangshan,” on view in the Freer Gallery of Art’s Ancient Chinese Sculpture Gallery, is a dramatic preview of early Chinese exhibits planned for renovated gallery spaces ...

Sculptures and carvings dating back more than 1,700 years have been discovered in the remains of a shrine and its courtyard in the ancient city of Bazira. The sculptures illustrate the religious life ...

Devotional objects created in China for Buddhist worship possess great visual and spiritual power. In the late 19th century, these objects also began to attract the attention from Western collectors.

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A groundbreaking exhibition that unites ...

Exhibition, Catalogue and Companion PBS Documentary Film by David Grubin Receive $1 Million National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman's Special Award Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art is the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- An ancient Buddhist sculpture smuggled into the United States has been returned to the government of Pakistan by New York City prosecutors. The 500-pound sculpture shows ...

The Smithsonian Buddha. (Digital image courtesy of the Smithsonian. Text by Vick Gan.) Deities in paradise, souls suffering in hell, jealous demigods and flying spirits, mortals gathered for ...

Siddhartha Gautama, a prince born some twenty-five hundred years ago, is recognized as the Historical Buddha, or “Awakened One.” His enlightenment freed him from the cycle of rebirth, and his ...

It's tucked away so that most passersby wouldn't even know it's there. But on South Franklin Road in Indianapolis' Raymond Park neighborhood, hidden behind a house, is a Buddhist temple and sculpture ...

‘Buddha Sculptures of Sri Lanka’, Ulrich von Schroeder’s magnum opus is in many ways a beguilingly beautiful study with a wealth of sculptural forms representing the Buddha and the legends connected ...

Likenesses of Buddha are these days so commonplace — the casual adornment of fashionable spas, fusion restaurants and Parisian nightclubs — that it is strange to think that artists once hesitated, out ...