The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara reveals the complex cultural influences — from Scytho-Parthian to Greco-Roman traditions — that fed the extraordinary artistic production of this ...

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art ... culture. By the thirteenth century, Vajrayana was close to extinct ...

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often ... and disperse the sand in order to share its blessing. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born in what is today Nepal in 563 B.C.E. While we know that ...