️ SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA - The "Enlightened One" or the "Awakened One." ️ MURDRA - Is a symbolic, ritualistic gesture used in yoga, Buddhism and Hinduism. The word is Sanskrit meaning ...

Amid preparations to open a Williamsburg outpost of her cult-favorite Thai restaurant, the chef shares her Songkran ...

Thailand has found a cute and creative way to welcome tourists during the country’s famous Songkran Festival, by greeting them with adorable dolls of Moo Deng. | News ...

Khadim Ali’s recent exhibition weaves mythology and memory into a meditation on the burden of inherited histories ...

Songkran, the Thai New Year celebrated from April 13 to 15, is renowned for its exuberant and joyful rituals. The festival's ...

Right, a ten-foot-tall statue of the Buddha looms inside Shitthaung temple ... the most ambitious temple in Mrauk U: Kothaung. In a gesture of filial one-upmanship, Man Pa’s son and successor ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a ...

Water, central to the festival, is used to cleanse Buddha statues, with participants sprinkling it on each other as a gesture of goodwill and blessings. The second day, often called "No Day," bridges ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was recently discovered at an archaeological site in North Korea. The Goryeo study saw the flourishing of Buddhist art and architecture ...