If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life.

He has also served as expert commentator on Tibetan Buddhist art and culture at various events including two of the Smithsonian Institution's summer exhibits: "Tibetan Culture: Beyond the Land of ...

Now they are created throughout the world, including New York City. A special sand mandala painting is a gift to New York City from the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery as a tolken ...

Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes us into cosmology of Vajrayana Buddhism, a form of Buddhism that originated in India in the 12th and 13th ...

Nearly 1,000 thangka paintings have been cataloged ... "These thangkas housed in the Potala Palace depict Buddhist stories, Tibetan history and culture, biographies of prominent figures, Tibetan ...

Visitors will be transported hundreds of years into the past as they walk through a new exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). On Saturday, MIA will unveil the Tibetan Buddhist shrine ...

This monastery is also the site of one of Tibet's biggest cultural celebrations, the Buddha Unfolding Festival. The festival centers around the debut of a giant, new thangka (Buddhist painting ...