Tibetan paintings discovered by Italian academic and explorer Giuseppe Tucci to American audiences for the first time in the exhibition Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting. The ...
Staying true to its role as a cultural melting pot, the Hexi Corridor was where both Tibetan and Han Buddhism flourished. A ...
Rooted in Buddhist teachings, the stories told in Tibetan opera recount the triumph of good and the punishment of evil and therefore serve a social teaching function for the community. This ...
The walls are lined with vibrant, striking tapestries. Shades of gold, orange and red stand out from the swaths of green and red. Depictions of Buddha and other deities seem to pop out from the cotton ...
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 ...