Sea merchants in Southeast Asia popularised the worship of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara ... part of temple culture as Buddhism waned and Hinduism rose. The goddess Vasundhara or the goddess ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Chunghwa Post will release a new set of stamps on Friday showcasing Taiwan’s folk beliefs, with each ...

Did you know that the literal meaning of Jataka is ‘birth stories’? A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of Indian literature that mainly con ...

It’s a painted statue of the Bodhisattva Maitreya ... Nor is it known why the image of the Buddhist goddess Tara—a green-skinned, many-armed protector—was accorded such prominence in ...

On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away leaving academia across the world immeasurably poorer. Till his last breath, ...

Wukong Art Exhibition at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art in East China's Zhejiang Province stands as an exploration of ...

Matsuri are regional gatherings usually held on days that are significant in the Shinto or Buddhist ... a statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon (the Japanese name for Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy ...