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

Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes famed musician Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died at 95, the Japanese religious ...

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...

Roosevelt issued an executive order forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans to abandon their ... sold her belongings and left her art with friends for safekeeping. Hayakawa abandoned her California ...

Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity ... mosque also follow the precise system of proportions dictated by the scale invariance ...

the perceived unreality of this transient dreamlike soap-bubble world in which we are born to no purpose and die for no reason — took Buddhist vows, shaved their heads, donned drab monkish or ...

The latest among them is “The Print Generation” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. This exhibition focuses on the generation of Japanese printmakers in the early decades of ...