With the Thai government presenting our prime minister with the Tipitaka, I thought it would be nice to revisit Buddhism this ...

Nor is it known why the image of the Buddhist goddess Tara—a green-skinned, many-armed protector—was accorded such prominence in the Sumtsek paintings. Much about Alchi remains baffling.

One of the things that I find fascinating about this sculpture is that, at the time it was made, Tara was a relatively recent convert to Buddhism. She had originally been a Hindu mother goddess ...

This apart, a large idol of a Buddhist goddess and 5th century sealings have ... votive stupas featuring Buddhist deities like Tara, Chunda, Manjusri, Dhyani Buddha etc and series of Sanskrit ...