Last week, Asia Society Museum showcased the rich, vibrant, Tibetan paintings discovered by Italian academic and explorer Giuseppe Tucci to American audiences for the first time in the exhibition ...

In Korea's Buddhism, which has been an important element of the country's culture and religion since it arrived here at around 4th century, large Buddhist paintings have been used for outdoor ...

Researchers surveying a temple in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture have discovered long-hidden paintings of eight Buddhist saints that could date back more than 1,300 years, report Jiro Tsutsui and ...

The paintings traditionally are executed on cotton or silk, and usually portray a Buddhist deity scene or mandala. They are painted with watered pigments, though the colors are bright and the ...

A distinctive genre of art history, Buddhist paintings are largely of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.

A Buddhist artist must train his body and soul to come together to bring the sacred Buddha to life through paintings. “When working, our state of mind must be upright.

Though the paintings have become famous in the West as the best-known example of Zen Buddhist art, the two hand scrolls originally would not have been seen as particularly spiritual.

One of the world's great museums—some 500 caves at Dunhuang filled with Buddhist painting and sculpture—were created over 1000 years, between the 4th and 14th centuries, on the Silk Road in northwest ...

An exhibition of Buddhist Shuilu paintings is underway at the Handan Museum in Handan city, North China's Hebei province, from June 29 to July 28, 2017.