VietNamNet Bridge – Oil paintings by Buddhist priest Phap Hanh have been exhibited in Vietnam and many countries. The monk’s real name is Nguyen Quang Thinh. He was born in the central province of ...

Clockwise from left: Yearning Yeti Crabs, 2007, Oil on canvas, 96x72 inches; Rapture of the Yeti Crab, 2008, Oil on panel, 32x48 inches; Yeti Crab Embrace, 2010, Oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil ...