Collections of beloved tales of the Buddha's past lives

The evolution of the Buddhist stupa

A comprehensive study of a spectacular excavation of Buddhist history

An ambitious study of Buddhist art and archaeology in India

PM Narendra Modi seeks to build cultural bridges in Asia

A new book about Buddhist landmarks in Andhra Pradesh

For millennia, awesome structures have reached for the sky and the stars beyond heaven. Religious towers like ziggurats or pyramids were believed to embody an adored ideal. Even today's skyscrapers ar

One of the mysteries of Buddhist history is the 400-year absence of an anthropomorphic image of the Buddha.  Early scholars argued for a period of defacto aniconism, in which artisans decorated Buddhi

  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,

Who doesn’t recognize the Buddha?  His image appears these days on watches, tennis shoes, t-shirts – nearly any kind of manufactured product you might think of.  There’s ev

Editor’s Note: Dr. Andrey Anatolyevich Terentyev studied Sanskrit, Tibetan and Indian Philosophies and Religions. He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of Oriental Studies (Russia). Currently, he is a vi