While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived ...

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However, the institute’s announcement failed to mention the statue had once ...

Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York ... this hand gesture symbolizes the Buddha's summoning Sthavara, the earth goddess, to witness his defeat of mara ...

Worry over the exquisite art—including an image of the protector ... Nor is it known why the image of the Buddhist goddess Tara—a green-skinned, many-armed protector—was accorded such ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

In the rest of the world — where Korean restaurants, music and film have transformed popular culture — the discovery of ...

Curators, students and scholars are pushing for transparency, ethical collecting and repatriation at Yale museums including ...

At 78, Jenny Kee feels so passionately about her fashion creations that she refers to them as her "children". And while she ...