In Chinese restaurants I always see statues of Buddha with long earlobes. ... Second, though Buddhism and its symbols originated in India, the iconography now varies widely by region and sect.

In the ruins of a Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan, archaeologists have uncovered a stone statue that seems to depict the prince Siddhartha before he founded Buddhism.

The Tibetan Book of Buddhist Proportions via Public Domain Review. Born some time around the early 4th century B.C., Siddhārtha Gautama was a Nepalese monk and wandering sage whose teachings went ...

In Chinese restaurants I always see statues of Buddha with long earlobes. I sometimes ask the folks who work there what significance this has. So far, even the Buddhists (three now) have no idea ...

He also fills in and substitutes the body of the Buddha with the imagery of fire, draping arms, chest, and face in flames. Tenzing Rigdol, detail of My World Is In Your Blindspot (2014), silk ...

Gonkar Gyatso's Buddha images, hollowed of traditional iconography and filled instead with pop-art stickers, have become iconic commentaries on the internationalization and commodification of Tibetan ...

The peppercorn-like curls became an important part of Asian religious iconography. Shimbun reports that the Nara Buddha was thought to have 966 ball-like spiral curls, which weigh over 2.6 pounds ...