"Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art" is an eclectic mix of statues ... Edo period in Japanese history and represent conceptions of heaven and hell in the Pure Land Buddhist tradition. For followers of ...

Featuring immersive imagery of the Buddhist Pure Land, “Ojodo” is shown in a new 360-degree CGI theater at Senjuji temple’s Rokkakudo hall in Tsu, the capital of Mie Prefecture, on Jan. 11 ...

Drawing on the National Museum of Asian Art's collections and collecions from across the Smithsonian, artworks spanning two millennia reveal Asia's rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse ...

In fact, the art played a crucial role in the development of the Buddhist religion ... Responsible for the fertility of the land and people, the yakshis are overtly sexual; their large breasts ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...

Dunhuang," a special exhibition ("the Exhibition") of Dunhuang's cultural artifacts, opened on September 20th at the China ...

Japanese monk Osho Taigu will collaborate with the Pure Land Foundation in London to advocate ... Monk of the more than 540-year-old Fukugonji Buddhist Temple which is nestled in the hills of ...

Concurrent exhibitions by Layo Bright and Elizabeth Englander challenge not only their environs, but the broader understandings of global art in the New York area and beyond. Eminem Buddhism ...

"The period when the grottoes were established marks an important phase in the localization of Buddhist cave art in China. "We can see in the grottoes that in just over 100 years, the style of ...

It will present the project’s main outputs: the heidICON database and the DiGA Thesaurus, an open resource for the standard description of Gandharan Buddhist art. It will finally delineate how this ...

Wu Zetian rose from the bottom of the hierarchy to become the only empress in China's history. Buddhism, a religion born in India, and Nalanda-trained scholars played an important role as Wu ...

It is just something that people do. If people are not harming each other, their private lives are their own business,” (Hsing Yun, Buddhism Pure and Simple, pp. 137–138). Many Buddhists ...