To commemorate the birth, awakening and death of Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, on Friday, May 5, Le Monde explores the main physical characteristics found in the representations in his ...

A Paris exhibition is marking the destruction of the giant statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in Afghanistan by Taliban forces 20 years ago ...

The first images of the Buddha appeared hundreds of years after his death. This early phase of Buddhist art did not depict the historical Buddha as a physical being but rather hinted at his ...

Stewart is coeditor of the fourth volume, From Apollo to Buddha: Hellenistic Art and the Silk Road Arts, which deals with the dissemination and fusion of art, and which according to him, "traces ...

Dr. Céline Debourse studies Babylonian history and religion in the second half of the first millennium BCE. Her Ph.D. dissertation, written at the University of Vienna, discussed the Babylonian New ...

A Paris exhibition is marking the destruction of the giant statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in Afghanistan by Taliban forces 20 years ago As Afghanistan enters a new ...