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 ...

The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara reveals the complex cultural influences — from Scytho-Parthian to Greco-Roman traditions — that fed the extraordinary artistic production of this ...

With the surrounding portrayals of gods, Bodhisattvas and disciples, all realistically and delicately sculpted in high and low relief, it is considered a masterpiece of Buddhist art in the Far East.

Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao are famous for ...

Carolyn Wargula is Assistant Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Japanese Buddhist art with a focus on the materiality and intermediality of textiles, the social significances of the body ...

In this course, students explore ‘seeing for yourself’ or direct experience, in relation to Buddhism and creativity. Each class begins with a meditation. We then investigate a Buddhist theme-such as ...

Today as we celebrate Vesak, D.C. Ranatunga unfurls the birth of the Buddhist flag - a symbol of Buddhist unity and reverence, created during the Buddhist revivalist movement in colonial Sri Lanka ...

Christian Luczanits, a leading scholar of Gandharan art, discusses how changing perceptions of the Buddha and bodhisattvas in Gandhara played an instrumental role in the development of Mahayana ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, a Buddhist flag is hoisted in the middle of this man ... The convergence of regional styles with Mathura and Gandharan schools of art—in terms of iconography, raw material and external ...

Bjarne Melgaard’s rise in the art world came with strings attached and an unusual contract with investors. Now he’s suing to regain control of his artwork. By Zachary Small His first feature ...