India's art market is booming, and institutions are opening at a rapid pace. But insiders say the country needs even more ...

Last week was a big one for South Asian art, with multiple records set in the category across New York’s Asia Week sales.

Penn Museum has made strides in conserving and renewing the artistic and cultural legacies of two Buddhist murals, both of ...

Discover Brinda Somaya's architectural legacy, blending cultural context and modern design for India's evolving landscapes.

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...

Buddhism as a Cultural Ambassador Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology ...

A Vajrayana Buddhist monk of French heritage and a PhD ... Chintan Girish Modi is a Mumbai-based journalist who writes about books, art and culture. He can be reached @chintanwriting on Instagram ...

The art of Gandhara evolved from the Greco-Buddhist interaction, and ... of great pride that the Greeks adopted Buddhism and spread it to the world from the Indian subcontinent.

Minister for Tourism and Culture Kandula Durgesh said that the tourism potential of Buddhist sites in Andhra Pradesh will be explored at the International Tourismus-Borse (ITB), an international ...

“There are some studies that suggest that the renowned Chinese Buddhist monk and traveller, Hiuen Tsang, who visited Odisha, during 638-639 AD, might have visited Ratnagiri. The new excavations would ...

Also all of these discovered Siva Lingas, Siva sculptures and all other Hindu veneration objects are well preserved ... Kulatunga who has done extensive research on the Stupa and Buddhist art and ...

These wealthy Buddhist institutions invested in art and architecture; all this would later impact Hindu pilgrimage traditions. Indeed, at Mathura around that time, Hinduism was undergoing a tremendous ...