That female Buddha Green Tara is meant to embody fearlessness, remove obstacles, and offer protection from suffering.

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 ...

Buddhism is practiced in various parts of the world and the Ancient Greeks played a significant role in the mission of ...

Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

Jajpur: In the ancient hills of Ratnagiri, Odisha, a team of archaeologists has been meticulously unearthing secrets buried ...

The ancient statue, a museum fixture since the 1990s, will return to its rightful home following a voluntary restitution ...

She’s not one to count how many hours she spends re-creating Goryeo Buddhist paintings, because for her, it is a way of ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at th ...

"Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda" had been on display at the museum since 1997. Researchers discovered the ...

The museum’s researchers collaborated with the government of Nepal to determine the sculpture had been stolen from the ...