Thousands of Miniature Wooden Towers Found in Japanese Buddhist Temple
Justin Whitaker
5 July 2019
Believed to be 19th century devotional items for making…
Challenging Reality: The Painted Sculptures of Masayuki Tsubota
Meher McArthur
19 June 2019
Art as a vehicle for deconstructing our notions of…
Buddha Head Found amid New Excavation Efforts in Gujarat, India
Dipen Barua
25 January 2019
Carving among numerous findings that narrate the…
Great Stupa of Universal Compassion Brings the Dharma to the Australian Bush
Anne Wisman
8 January 2019
Stupa to house one of the world’s largest collections…
The Buddhist Face of Kazakhstan
Lyudmila Klasanova
20 July 2018
An overview of Buddhism in the land of the great…
Ice Chorten in Ladakh Becomes a Buddhist Symbol of the Climate Change Crisis
Craig Lewis
22 March 2018
Buddhist ice sculpture highlights growing water…
Inspiration at Wat Pho Temple, Bangkok
BD Dipananda
29 August 2014
This summer, I was fortunate to have made a short visit to Thailand, a country that is home to thousands of Buddhist temples of wondrous
Namo Buddha Mountain: Walking in the Bodhisattva’s Path in Nepal
BD Dipananda
23 June 2014
Nepal is one of the most sought after destinations whether for pilgrimage or tourism. In February 2012, when I was studying at the University of
A Buddhist Tale of Comfort and Closure
Raymond Lam
18 May 2013
Glimpses of living history often surprise us with their suddenness, their whimsical appearance in the hands of an unsuspecting discoverer. And it often requires many
Minaret and Stupa – The Art of Remembrance in Islam and Buddhism
Raymond Lam
22 April 2013
For millennia, awesome structures have reached for the sky and the stars beyond heaven. Religious towers like ziggurats or pyramids were believed to embody an
Part Four: New Ideas
Jeffrey Martin
4 February 2013
Beginning in the mid-1980’s, American scholars John and Susan Huntington turned Buddhist art history on its head with claims that the first Buddha images were
Part Two: The Traditional View
Jeffrey Martin
1 December 2012
Perhaps no religious icon is as widely used and well-known as the image of the Buddha seated in meditation. Yet one of the curiosities of