The Buddhist Hanging Scroll at Muryang Temple was designated a National Treasure on Thursday. The 14-meter (45.9-foot) scroll ...

Dotonbori is like an arms race for your attention. The signs get bigger and more elaborate, to the point giant crabs or a ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...

A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

Did you know that the literal meaning of Jataka is ‘birth stories’? A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of Indian literature that mainly con ...

Brief reviews of new books by Ben Okri, Philip Marsden, Myozan Ian Kilroy, Funmi Fetto, Mahmoud Muna/Matthew Teller and Ama ...

Our favorite concerts, festivals, restaurant and brewery events happening in South Florida this weekend throughout Palm Beach ...