The figural tradition of Buddhist art spread through Central and East Asia and also ... and attempts have been made to revive it today. The ancient Chinese were adept at a great many applied and ...

Gandhara Buddhist art — which originated in the Kushan Empire, a Central Asian state founded by nomads originally from ...

Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese ... Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Shaft bell (yong) with spirals and dragons; from a set Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Bell in the form of a ...

Latte art has got nothing on the ancient Chinese art of drawing on tea foam whipped up with a bamboo whisk, these days using ...

Until 1940, Gao Jianfu, the great Lingnan painter, taught Guan the art of Chinese painting. In 1941, Guan began traveling through Western China, where he researched ancient Buddhist mural paintings ...

Establishing a new religion in ancient India was ... can be seen in the art of the period. In fact, the art played a crucial role in the development of the Buddhist religion.

Residents in North China’s Shanxi province will have ... Persia and other cultural centers as faraway as ancient Greece. Gandhara Buddhist art is a unique art style that blends Greco-Persian ...