The Big Buddha at the Po Lin Monastery on the Lantau Island is one of the most visited sights in Hong Kong. The monumental bronze statue...

The Thousand-Buddha motif is a recurrent theme in the Buddhist art of Central Asia and China. The motif depicts a multitude of buddhas...

At the Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum in Hong Kong, there is a limestone sculpture depicting a pair of hands holding a...

Luo Wenhua Translated by Guoying Stacy Zhang The Gelug tradition, also referred to as the “Yellow Hat Tradition”, founded by Tsongkhapa,...

LI HUANG WAI Founder, Zhiguan Museum Translated by Guoying Stacy Zhang FOUNDED IN 2016, the Zhiguan Museum of Fine Art is located at 12...

TSZ SHAN MONASTERY in Hong Kong is a Chinese Buddhist monastery dedicated to promoting the Buddhist teachings of Clarity, Compassion and...

TSZ SHAN MONASTERY Buddhist Art Museum—the first Buddhist art museum in Hong Kong—opened to the public in May 2019. The museum collection...

In the midst of widespread protests in Hong Kong in October 2019, the city was imbued with feelings of anxiety, fear, and anger. Fire,...

The Zhiguan Museum of Fine Art in Beijing houses one of the most important collections of Himalayan art in the world, encompassing...

A groundbreaking exhibition, titled “Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Period (7th–9th Century),” opened in...

Although Vesak, or “Waisak” in Indonesian, is celebrated at the national level, the Buddhist community makes up just 1 per cent of the...

Borobudur has always enchanted me. Dated to the eighth and ninth centuries, during the Shailendra dynasty, it is the largest Buddhist...

Buddhism and astrology might seem to be unrelated fields. Buddhism affords a set of teachings intended to liberate us from cycles of...

Tibet is not only romanticized in the West, but also among people of China. Situated on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the highest plateau on...

The artifacts that we now categorize as “Buddhist art” were not always treated as art in their original context. Despite superb...

In March 2017, Buddhistdoor Global interviewed Professor Luo Wenhua, a research fellow at the Palace Museum in Beijing and director of...

“My goal is to build a systematic collection that illustrates how Buddhist art evolved from ancient India to China,” collector Zhou...

When we talk about Buddhist art, one tends to think of sculptures in stone or bronze, or monumental caves and wall paintings. However,...

According to the Ekottara Agama Sutra (增一阿含經), the first Buddha image was made of wood. It is said that when the Buddha was teaching his...

According to the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center, 18.2 per cent of China’s population—that is 224 million people—are Buddhists,...