The elegantly carved feline figures from the third century B.C., unearthed by the British in northern India, embody both ...

The Lion Flag was taken to England and kept at the Royal Hospital ... with four stylized leaves of the Bo (Pipul) tree, a Buddhist symbol, added to the four corners to replace the four pinnacles. In ...

Among the great artistic objects found by chance, one must include the Ashokan Lion Capital at the Archaeological ... By contrast, well-manicured Sarnath, one of Buddhism’s four holy sites ...