Buddhist art has been created over two millennia across India, China, Japan and throughout Asia, and takes some distinctive forms in various regions, but generally speaking it was created to guide ...

A staff member unveils the cover of "Avatamsaka Sutra, Volume 22, Main Text, in Gold on Indigo Paper" during a media briefing ...

Souls trembling before judgment, a boiling cauldron and a chance at redemption through a blooming lotus — these striking ...

Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art is the first-ever exhibition examining artistic production inspired by sacred sites and the practice of Buddhist pilgrimage in Asia. Through over ninety spectacular objects ...

At the press opening for the Metropolitan Museum’s beyond-beautiful “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.,” five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the ...

NEW YORK — “Tree & Serpent,” an exhibition of early Buddhist art from India at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 13), put me in a strange and beautiful state. Packed with precious ...

BEIJING — Just as European art has long been influenced by that of nonwestern cultures, in postwar America artists witnessed the spread of Zen Buddhism promulgated by the prominent Japanese ...

The Mogao Caves in the desert of northwest China tell a story of art and Buddhism that began more than 1,500 years ago. Today, Princeton scholars are playing a key role as part of an international ...

Buddhism began more than 2,500 ago in India, but it is finding new adherents today as a growing number of Americans cope with the anxiety and mental health struggles of trying times.