Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy ... before filling them with statues and covering their walls in sacred art. He chose Tianti Mountain for this purpose.

101 x 56 cm. (39.8 x 22 in.) ...

Ikebana, the Japanese floral art, is an ideal way to connect with nature and find inner harmony. This ancient art not only ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

stretching a total of 1,720 meters in an unbroken masterpiece of history and art. The grottoes, very much like the ancient Silk Road, reached their heyday during the first half of the Tang rule ...

It is a complicated picture, one aspect of the ongoing encounter between Eastern and Western perspectives that forms the background to The Buddha Pill. The critique of mindfulness from Buddhism ...

Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim ...

March 25, 2025 • Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.