David Shapiro was an American multimedia known for his symbol based abstractions. The motifs which the artist incorporated into his work partly derived from Buddhist hand symbols and yoga poses, which ...
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s Buddhist history hasn’t got much attention from mainstream historians. But a new paper maps the widespread travels of a 16th-century Buddhist yogi from Rameswaram. He set out ...
The mudras, or hand positions, of Buddhist images carry symbolic meaning, often expressing key aspects of the Buddha’s teachings. Two important mudras can be observed in the Great Buddha.
There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...