We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons, and during both trips we made sure to visit Nara ...

Buddhist temples vary in style and design, but they usually feature a main hall, a Buddha statue and space to meditate.

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

APSARA National Authority For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its body, however, was missing. But last month ...

As the late author Hilary Mantel wrote in The Mirror & the Light, the final volume in her best-selling, magisterial Wolf Hall trilogy of historical novels: The age of persuasion has ended ...

We are reminded of the story of the Buddha and the leper. In this story, Buddha reaches out to the homeless leper teaching us that true compassion transcends fear and stigma. When others recoiled ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by ...

Massapequa-raised Vincenzo Loseto joins the half-dozen or so Long Island natives to compete on Bravo’s "Top Chef" — including past season winners Harold Dieterle (West Babylon), Ilan Hall (Gr ...

Cave Number 10, a Buddhist Chaitya (prayer hall), is the focus of this rare event. As the sun moves northward, its rays enter the cave and touch the Buddha’s face, creating a stunning visual display.

The sculpted body of a Buddha in an unusual pose was discovered by Apsara National ... research outside the northeast corner of a laterite stone platform near the third hall of the temple. This ...