NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

Immerse yourself in the refined process of crafting a Buddhist altar, a revered tradition in Japanese art. Each step, from selecting premium materials to the delicate assembly, reflects deep ...

Those rituals included special meditative hand positions (mudras), paintings (mandalas), and mantras (chants). Unlike Saichō, Kūkai enjoyed good relations with the Nara sects, for he held that all of ...

Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

The eight Buddhist saints depicted in the drawings ... to be exhibited at “Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present,” which is currently being held at ...

said the chatbot "could offer opportunities for many people to receive Buddhist teachings also in Japan, where temples are expected to decrease." In a time of both misinformation and too much ...

Zen Buddhism also won acceptance in Japan during the medieval period ... even commissioned an illustrated scroll to tell his tale. Another important art form was raigō, paintings that showed Amida ...