With four scowling faces, 12 eyes, 12 arms, numerous weapons, skulls adorning the rim of his crown, severed heads dangling from his waist, human figures crushed beneath his feet and his consort ...

The imagery of Asian religious sculptural figures can be bewildering. Distinguishing Chinese from Japanese and Indian from Thai can be a daunting challenge. In this primer I'll review the most common ...

Japan's Shinto belief system is not an organized religion, but rather a collection of beliefs and practices centered around the natural world and ancestry. Though it was originally not an image−based ...

STATEN ISLAND, NY — Renaissance painters imagined heaven as a luminous cloudbank overflowing with angels and saints. They didn’t own the concept. Traditional Buddhist artists had a similar hunch about ...

KNOXVILLE — The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is preparing to host an exhibit of gilded statues of Buddhist deities and colorful paintings dating from ...

"The Elegant Image" is an exhibit of 125 rare bronze sculptures of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain deities selected by art historian Pratapaditya Pal from the collection of New Orleanian Dr. Siddharth K.

The two objects in this exhibition exemplify the birth of Buddhism in Japan. In 552, the Korean kingdom of Baekje sent the Japanese court sacred texts (sutras) and a gilt bronze sculpture, thought to ...