The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is seeking to deaccession a 9th-century stone Buddha to allow for its ...

With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred ...

The pieces are part of the heads of Naga, archaeologists said, a guardian deity thought to have sheltered the Buddha from ...

Dharma & Tantra, Tuesday, September 17, 2024, With his hands in the teaching gesture (dharmachakra mudra), the Buddha is seated in the adamantine meditation posture (vajraparyankasana) on a cushion ...

These eyeballs are scattered around the land on the heads of Buddha statues. With six to find, chances are you might miss one or two in your travels across the area. Plus, when it comes to using ...

And it lives up to its name. The temple houses more than 3,000 images of Buddha, deities and other historical figures in the religion, including the Jowo Shakyamuni. Jowo Shakyamuni, or also ...

The Buddha’s mother was the wife of a leading figure in a small state known by its tribal name, Śākya. It was a kind of oligarchic republic that was situated on the border of modern day India ...

(RNS) — Bhante Sujatha, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk leading a temple in Woodstock, Illinois, hopes a new outdoor, interfaith meditation space will be a sanctuary in a world of noise. WOODSTOCK, Ill.

Siddhartha was born on the border between India and Nepal. He was born into a privileged family, who were considered a ruling family. Birth - Buddhist teachings say that his mother, Queen Maya ...

Between 1924 and 1925, thieves vandalized and looted the caves, bribing corrupt monks to break over 240 statues into fragments for sale ... and collectors was the Buddha head, but the statue's ...