When avant-garde theater and Chinese art collide

Expressions of spirituality in the traditional Chinese art forms of painting and calligraphy

The story of a jewelry artist on embodying the sensual and the sacred

The intangible value of Buddhism's ancient heritage

Bringing Chinese culture to Vancouverites

Photographic expressions of Zen

Tracing the roots of a sacred Buddhist art form

An important cave at the Longmen Grottoes repoens

The transformative impact of Dharma on living and on art

There is a painting in the Freer Gallery of Art’s current exhibition, Zen, Tea, and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan, that beautifully symbolizes the remarkable cultural exchange and synthesis that

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

In 1920, a Belgian missionary posted in Inner Mongolia received a mysterious gift from a Mongolian Tibetan-Buddhist monk: 54 painted pages illustrating various Buddhas, bodhisattvas, yoga positions, c

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