As the first ray of sun glow touched Drepung Monastery in Lhasa early Thursday, thousands of local worshippers and tourists from afar on the road to the monastery viewed a imposing scene of praying to ...

Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In ...

A rare piece of the parietal bone of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, is seen in Qixia Temple, Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, before being flown to Hong Kong for public worship, April 25, ...

Tibetan Buddhism has caught the interest of some Westerners, partly because of its esoteric nature. A philosophical kind of Buddhism came to Tibet from India in the first half of the 600s and was ...

Remains of a wooden structure at the Buddha’s birthplace dating to at least 2,500 years ago provide a rare glimpse of ancient religious practice in South Asia. Excavations in 2011 and 2012 beneath ...

Mahayana is the name of one of the two primary branches of Buddhism. The word is formulated from the Sanskrit “maha,” meaning great or large, and “yana,” meaning vehicle. Taken together, the term can ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This carving, from a stupa at the ...

Dressed in black, a dozen Zen Buddhist practitioners sit on black cushions once a week in Palatine, their arms resting in a circle to harmonize their bodies and minds. Incense burns and a bowl of ...