Related programming and funding credits Public programming to accompany Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art includes: • Daylong multidisciplinary symposium — featuring artists, scholars, critics and writers ...

The 12th-century hand scroll is on display in “Words of Wisdom: Buddhist Calligraphy from Japan” at the Freer Gallery. (Colleen J. Dugan/National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Collection/Charles ...

Splendid sculpture and painting from LACMA's permanent collection was packed up about eight years ago. Finally, it's back on ...

Surviving Buddhist art from the Kamakura period — some of which is on display in Asia Society Museum’s current exhibition Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan — speaks to the ...

About the Artist: Japanese sculptor and installation artist Tatsuo Miyajima often works with numbers and LED lights to encapsulate ideas found in Buddhist thought. In his new exhibition “ Art in ...

On Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 PM CDT, the monks of Shomyo no Kai offer a rare opportunity to practice shomyo in a virtual workshop on how to use Buddhist ritual chant as a form of meditation. The ...

In 1983, at Japan Society in Manhattan, I saw a show of early Buddhist sculpture so beautiful that I maxed out my Visa card to fly to Japan to find more. It was my first time there. I spoke no ...

Newsletter sign up The 750-mile Shikoku pilgrimage around Japan’s smallest island takes in 88 Buddhist temples (Image credit: Getty Images) By The Week Staff published July 9, 2023 ...