Author is an art historian, filmmaker and photographer ... and her name remains synonymous with the female Buddhist monastic order of Theravada Buddhism, not only in Sri Lanka but also in ...

Hinduism’s focus on joy and God contrasted with Buddhism’s austere practices and lack of a personal deity. Additionally, Buddhism’s monastic demands disrupted societal structures ...

This is also the story of sectarian clashes and the eventual Great Schism that resulted in the two major schools, Theravada and Mahayana. In total, 6 Buddhist councils were convened. The ...

In 2018, she published “Tai no Jigokudera” (Thailand’s hell temples), which takes a scholarly approach to such images from the viewpoint of art history ... of Theravada Buddhism, a school ...

Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on display in the exhibition she co-curated, Unknown Tibet: ...

Pagodas serve as Buddhist temples and sacred buildings throughout Myanmar. Photograph by Myo Kyaw Soe Xinhua, eyevine, Redux Myanmar’s temples, mosques, monasteries, and nunneries are far more ...

Notably, during his 2015 visit to Sri Lanka, he addressed Buddhist monks at Colombo’s Mahabodhi Temple and paid homage to the sacred Mahabodhi tree in Anuradhapura. Anuradhapura is a hub of Theravada ...

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