If you think globalism is a modern phenomenon, head to the Getty Center and prepare for a mind-bending experience. Among other wonders in the landmark exhibition “Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist ...
Majestic 6th-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 21st-century 3D-imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early ...
BHOPAL, (IANS) – The Archaeological Survey of India has found ancient caves, remains of Buddhist structures, temples, mural inscriptions bearing names of cities like Mathura and Koshambi, and Mughal ...
Two-dozen previously unrecorded Buddhist caves have been found in the Tala range of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the Archaeological Survey of India reported last week. The caves date back to the 2nd ...
In a remote desert in northwestern China, about 20 minutes outside the city of Dunhuang, a wealth of ancient Chinese artworks is squirreled away inside a mile-long stretch of caves that were carved ...
MAE SAI, Thailand >> The young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand were ordained today at a Buddhist temple, a merit-making activity to ...
Washington DC. I like walk-in tours. The Freer & Sackler on Independence SW does them better than most. This one's The Buddhist Cave Temples at Xiangtangshan. To me that's ancient Chinese sculpture - ...
The Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were damaged over the centuries by souvenir-seekers, but researchers at the University of Chicago and Peking University have managed to reconstruct the ...
The Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art present “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan,” a major new traveling ...
Discover the treasures of the Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan. Once scattered around the world, these artifacts were recently brought together for the first time in almost a century in "Echoes ...
You might think of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's new exhibition as "CSI Xiangtangshan.'' In 1913, Charles Lang Freer bought two ancient Chinese sculpted heads at a New York gallery. He couldn’t have ...