Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

Contemporary artists Anne von Freyburg, Epoh Beech, Gary Myatt, Graphic Rewilding, and Sophie Mess are inspired by nature to ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy ... before filling them with statues and covering their walls in sacred art. He chose Tianti Mountain for this purpose.

Penn Museum has made strides in conserving and renewing the artistic and cultural legacies of two Buddhist murals, both of ...

In Buddhism, the goal is to attain enlightenment and liberation (nirvana) by practicing the teachings of the Buddha, who himself achieved enlightenment by sitting in meditation under a bodhi tree.

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Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

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