Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York ... The lotus is often understood as a symbol of spiritual purity. The blooming of a lotus is said to mimic the ...

On the occasion of the United Nations Day of Vesak 2025, the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha selected the painting 'Lotus in Pure ...

Lotus flowers often accompany him ... The preservation and study of Buddhist art in Japan was also common, meaning that they ...

Often depicted in Buddhist art, it is a paradise where demigods dwell, trees are always flowering, and lotus flowers bloom in pools where purified souls are reborn. Amitābha is often shown ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

Archeologists in northeastern Thailand have found a number of rare Buddhist relics dating back more than 1,300 years.

BUDDHISTS in Malaysia observe Wesak Day today, honouring the birth, enlightenment and passing into Mahaparinirvana of Gautama ...