How the museum and Indian institutions overcame eight years of physical and diplomatic challenges to bring 125 rare Buddhist art works to New York. By Rachel Sherman What weighs more than 4,000 pounds ...
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The story of the Piprahwa relics, sacred Buddhist artefacts discovered by the British in 1898
PM Modi will inaugurate the exposition, ‘The Light and the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One’ of Piprahwa relics at Delhi's Rai Pithora Cultural Complex on 3 January.
As the 15th edition of Asia Week New York launches, New York’s major auction houses are gearing up for sales of sought-after artwork and artifacts from across the continent. The annual event is the ...
Two-dozen previously unrecorded Buddhist caves have been found in the Tala range of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the Archaeological Survey of India reported last week. The caves date back to the 2nd ...
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How Buddhism Shapes India’s Soft Power in the East
Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology instead of coercion or violence. Buddhism has been India's cultural emissary for millennia, disseminating peace, ...
Ganesha from Central Viet Nam in the 7th-8th century, part of the exhibit "Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century," on April 7, 2014 at the Metropolitan ...
NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Founded in India, Buddhism also found a fertile ground in Southeast Asia, where it took root and flourished for centuries, shaping the region’s socioeconomic, political, cultural, ...
Modern India is largely a Hindu country today, but in ancient times, starting with the reign of the pious Ashoka (c. 268-232 B.C.), Buddhism flourished in its western regions. In the centuries that ...
Exhibition, Catalogue and Companion PBS Documentary Film by David Grubin Receive $1 Million National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman's Special Award Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art is the ...
NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Bodhidharma, a revered Buddhist monk who lived during 5th or 6th century is credited for transmitting Chan Buddhism (the Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism) in China. The word Chan ...
Stephen A Murphy is a Senior Lecturer at SOAS, University of London. Prior to this he was a senior curator at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, from July 2014-October 2020 where an exhibition ...
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