This Buddhist monk blessed a Hasselblad camera at the Shaolin Temple –and Chinese social media had a field day with "enlightenment" puns ...

Over 2,500 years ago, an Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama achieved spiritual enlightenment and became the Buddha, the founder of the world's fourth-largest religion.

The seventeenth-century monk Enkū is said to have produced some 120,000 carved Buddhist images while traveling the length of the Japanese islands. A look at a prime example of his honest, rough ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to Thailand during their country’s decades of dictatorship and turmoil.

The bell has unique decorative patterns. Four relief images of Buddha were cast around the surface of the bell. They are almost as tall as the bell itself. The black bronze bell, smooth and shiny ...

AP PHOTOS: Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India . Feb. 28, 2025 at 10:20 pm Updated Feb. 28, 2025 at 11:16 pm . By . ASHWINI BHATIA.

NHK has learned a temple in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, will provide South Korea with three-dimensional imagery ...

AP PHOTOS: Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India. The Associated Press. March 1, 2025, 4:42 AM. Share This: share on facebook; share ...