A staff member unveils the cover of "Avatamsaka Sutra, Volume 22, Main Text, in Gold on Indigo Paper" during a media briefing ...

Souls trembling before judgment, a boiling cauldron and a chance at redemption through a blooming lotus — these striking ...

This sculpture was made with rock, robotics and time. Its beauty stuns. Barry X Ball’s “Buddha” took years to make with the help of a studio team and a robot. It’s timeless.

But there are some difficulties with this reading, usefully discussed by Matthew Gindin, himself a former Buddhist monastic, in an essay for the religious journal Arc. The first issue, writes ...

“The White Lotus” Season 3 delivers audiences with some of the most shocking scenes yet: an incestuous threesome, an old man’s odd kink and a somewhat trope-y “I am your father” reveal ...

Once sourced, the slabs of stone were assembled, cut in profile, then carved into its present shape by a robot, milling under a stream of cooling water. The “rough” milling produced a sculpture ...

More than 1,000 years ago, below the statue of the reclining Buddha in an ancient temple, someone stashed their hoard. Gold, silver and bronze items were hidden at the Thailand site for centuries ...

The public fascination with The White Lotus series seems more about excess than enlightenment — but its third season illustrates that the capitalist uptake of spirituality does not necessarily ...

Archaeologists in Thailand uncovered 33 ancient gold, silver, and bronze treasures beneath a 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha statue. They found rare repoussé metal sheets depicting Buddha and ...

Artifacts including gold and silver jewelry were discovered under the reclining Buddha statue at a Thailand temple in Nakhon Ratchasima, dating back 1,300 years ...