Thousands of Buddhist believers and festival-goers filled downtown Seoul for Yeon Deung Hoe, or the Lotus Lantern Festival.

An imposing statue of Amitābha Buddha has been unearthed at Yakjon-ri site, with ceramic and tile finds confirming it dates ...

Conversion is framed as a betrayal of the nation, and Dalits who convert are labelled as traitors, tools of foreign influence ...

A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India are working to promote harmony and cultivate ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

Almost all Americans — 92 percent of adults — say they experience some form of spiritual belief, whether in a god, human ...

A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and ...

the Goryeo dynasty—which was a Buddhist state—saw the flourishing of religious art and architecture known as Bulsa, or “Buddhist Projects.” Goryeo Korea was stricken by rainstorms over some periods ...

Buddhist thangka paintings are visually ... Fully understanding the symbolic expression of the religious, social, and even political contexts of a thangka would require a degree in art history — but ...

It’s this mix of Buddhist and Shinto traditions that have helped make anime the very popular storytelling form it is today. In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of adults have left the ...

ART21: Does that has something to do with being raised Catholic? SMITH: It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical ...

India is preparing to roll out its first school curriculum for Buddhist monasteries this month, aiming to unify education programmes and foster patriotism in Himalayan religious centers near its ...