From here to the north, in the east of the land of snow, Is a country where divine thunder spontaneously blazes In a beautiful nomad's place with the sign of a cow... This cryptic note, said to have ...
According to Buddhist belief, the human incarnation of Buddha gathered a group of 500 monks around him in 543 BC to bid them farewell. He asked the gathering three times whether there were any doubts ...
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A stunning sculpture of the Buddha modeled after a destroyed sixth-century statue is coming to New York City's High Line
This spring, a 27-foot-tall sandstone sculpture of the Buddha will go on view at New York City’s High Line. Titled The Light That Shines Through the Universe, the piece was designed by ...
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Five white Buddhas of Thailand, a modern temple rising from mountains
A remote Thai temple with five white Buddhas and vibrant mosaics offers a peaceful blend of spirituality, nature, and modern ...
Mirza Hussain, and other prisoners like him, had labored for hours to stack mines, bombs and dynamite beneath the feet of Afghanistan’s most iconic public artwork — a 175-foot standing statue of the ...
A planned cultural center at the site of the lost Buddhas of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is underway thanks to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...
Ancient Buddhas at Bamiyan were destroyed by the Taliban -- but now their images are being reconstructed using 3-D modeling. This image shows the texture mapping of a 3-D model of the Great Buddha of ...
Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese ...
The following is a signed article by Li Decheng, deputy director-general of and a research fellow with China Tibetology Research Center. Reincarnation of Living Buddhas never decided by reincarnated ...
Six living Buddhas graduated from a middle school under the Tibetan Buddhist College in Lhasa, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday. Photo: Snapshot of China News After performing an ...
The monumental Buddhas of Bamiyan once shone in glowing colors. Restorers have analyzed hundreds of fragments of the statues that were blow up by the Taliban. They have, for the first time, been able ...
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