KYOTO - On a late September day, after the summer heat had subsided, as evening approached and the cicadas stopped buzzing, ...

NARA--A special two-part exhibition is being held at the Nara National Museum here that traces the 1,400-year history of Buddhist art in Japan through 246 artworks, of which 13 are national treasures.

Carolyn Wargula is Assistant Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Japanese Buddhist art with a focus on the materiality and intermediality of textiles, the social significances of the body ...

Books in this series present new research and histories on works of art and material culture from across East Asia, including China, Japan, and Korea, and ranging from the ancient period to today.

But gradually many of them have been assimilated with the Japanese native cult of Shintoism as well ... similarities or commonalities with Tengrianism. Moreover, Buddhism has influenced art, ...

Daisaku Ikeda, the former head of one of the world’s largest Japanese Buddhist ... on philosophy, art, poetry, and music. Ikeda has also published a number of books on Buddhism, as well as ...