It’s all in the details: the Nepali Thangka paintings have vivid colours with red, orange, yellow, blue and green dominating, representing Buddhist symbols and images, capturing the cosmic world of ...

McArthur, curator of East Asian Art at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, has set for herself no small task: to create a concise, accessible primer to the intricate world of Buddhist art. She ...

What was the Buddha’s great wisdom, and how do the artworks of the Buddhist tradition convey it to us today? Buddhist art has been created over two millennia across India, China, Japan and throughout ...

Humans have a long list of symbols used for spirituality. The beauty of spirituality is that it differs from religion and transcends many different cultures. Many spiritual symbols we see come from ...

The development of images with emanated figures in the aureole -- The notion of generating other Buddhas in Buddhism -- The tranformed-Buddhas and the Buddhas-of-the-ten-directions -- Bodhisattva as ...

The Ankh- A symbol that represents the key to your eternal life. The Bhavacakra- The meaning of the Sanskrit term bhavacakra is "wheel of life" which most prominently alludes to the circle of life and ...