At least once in their lives, devout Buddhists in Laos strive to visit a very special temple inside a natural landmark, the Pak Ou Caves, directly on the mighty Mekong River, the lifeline of Southeast ...

BHOPAL, (IANS) – The Archaeological Survey of India has found ancient caves, remains of Buddhist structures, temples, mural inscriptions bearing names of cities like Mathura and Koshambi, and Mughal ...

MAE SAI, Thailand – The young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand were ordained Wednesday at a Buddhist temple, a merit-making activity ...

Majestic 6th-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 21st-century 3D-imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early ...

Foreword / Timothy P. Whalen and Thomas Gaehtgens -- The Dunhuang cave temples at Mogao / Neville Agnew and Marcia Reed -- The Buddhist cave temples of Dunhuang: art, spirituality, cultural heritage / ...

Inscribed Buddhist scriptures were a vital part of cave temple architecture in China. This paper focuses on a later phase of development in the eighth century as exemplified by Wofoyuan, Sichuan. The ...

Showing replicas of artworks instead of the real thing is usually anathema to an art museum, but the J. Paul Getty Trust on Tuesday showed why that rule has its exceptions. The Getty Trust fleshed out ...

You might think of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's new exhibition as "CSI Xiangtangshan.'' In 1913, Charles Lang Freer bought two ancient Chinese sculpted heads at a New York gallery. He couldn’t have ...