The discovery of 2-metre-long Buddha heads with intact features in Ratnagiri establishes that Buddhism was the predominant ...

The walls are lined with vibrant, striking tapestries. Shades of gold, orange and red stand out from the swaths of green and ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound ...

Though there are ongoing debates, the first anthropomorphic representations of the Buddha himself are often considered a result of the Greco-Buddhist interaction. Hercules with a lion-skin was the ...

Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown of skulls, carrying a bowl of blood and the legendary weapon Vajra. The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the ...

BAIJNATH, India (AP) — Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound of drums, cymbals and long horns. Behind them ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A statue of Mahakala, a wrathful Buddhist deity, is wheeled out as monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism perform a ritual dance called Cham at the ...

The Jetavana, where the Buddha delivered his sermons, was purchased by a generous merchant named Anathapindika, who continued to support the Buddhist establishment even after falling into poverty. His ...

A statue of Mahakala, a wrathful Buddhist deity, is wheeled out as monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism perform a ritual dance called Cham at the ...