The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

Explore how B.R. Ambedkar’s image is recontextualised across calendars, posters, postage stamps, and more in a ...

The Annunciation Greek Church on Hershey Avenue in Lancaster city recently finished a 10-year project for installing a new iconography. The iconograph covers the walls and ceilings and tells the ...

Landing back into the water on “The White Lotus” can seem like the best and only escape from the tyranny of ego and desire.

Observer recently caught up with the Pictures Generation artist to learn more about how his practice has evolved and the role ...

A cliff-face cavity is all that remains of one of two sixth-century Buddha sculptures, sublime expressions of Bamiyan's ancient kingdom. Alex Masi Clad in a safari suit, sun hat, hiking boots and ...

At the age of thirty-five, under a papal tree, Sidhartha reached enlightenment and became an "enlightened one"--a Buddha (c. 528 BC). Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni ...

A wandering ascetic and religious teacher, Gautama Buddha gave rise to a new religion in the Indian subcontinent during the 5th century BCE. Buddhism focuses on the path of meditation and ...

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.