Guidance on the bridge from the secular to the sacred

The race against time to conserve Tibetan Buddhist art

Where do Cham dances find sanctuary?

New Ancient Religions gallery draws on pan-Asian Buddhist art traditions

On a mission to preserve the Buddhist heritage of Matho Monastery

There are few better examples of the Mongolian Buddhist heritage than Ikh Khüree, known today as none other than Ulaanbaatar itself, the country’s capital. A seamless fusion of nomadic prac

Whether it is his unconventional performance art, his photography, or his sculpture, Chinese artist Zhang Huan’s remarkable repertoire is rebellious, eccentric, controversial—and spiritual, particular

About the ACLS   Formed in 1919, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private, non-profit federation of 72 national learned societies. As representative of American scholarship, the A

As I am not an art historian, I had some hesitation in attending the talks on “Buddhist Art and Architecture.” However, after reading the abstracts, I was surprised to learn that the resea

The ethics and principles of preserving Buddhist art from an academic perspective.

  Beginning in the mid-1980’s, American scholars John and Susan Huntington turned Buddhist art history on its head with claims that the first Buddha images were made shortly after the Buddha’s death,

Perhaps no religious icon is as widely used and well-known as the image of the Buddha seated in meditation.  Yet one of the curiosities of history is that there is no evidence of images of the Buddha,

It is high time we brought back the lost traditions of the Mathurān and Gandhāran art schools. Mathurā and Gandhāra were two regions in ancient India that played host to two distinctive styles of Budd