Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The elephant and the horse have played a major role in shaping Indian culture. The ...

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening at the Brooklyn Museum, where it features both familiar treasures ...

Lotus Sculpture unveils handcrafted Hindu Gods & Buddha statues, blending sacred art with decor to inspire peace, devotion, and timeless spiritual beauty ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...

Unlike that opening sentence, Ancient India: Living Traditions is a very respectful and carefully managed show of religious art by the British Museum in which, quite honestly, the stirring charisma of ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

There is no Ishwara or God in Buddhism (or Jainism ... some of which you may recall from my earlier piece, Elephant Jatakas with a Timeless Message (Sept 11, 2023). Golden fish, shown in pairs ...

This apart, one of the most striking finds is a broken monolithic elephant, an imposing structure ... excavated shrine complex are idols of Buddhist gods and goddesses and votive stupas related ...

Sonam Dolma Brauen has surrounded a towering 13th century copper stupa, a type of Buddhist shrine ... the lowly critter who serves as the elephant god Ganesha’s vehicle of choice.

and it is said that Buddha himself might have been an elephant in one of his previous lives. In Sri Lanka, the Hindus regard elephants as a deity and pray to the elephant headed god named Lord ...

It is believed that Buddha himself could have been in the ... faith in the island nation worship Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed god who is the son of Lord Mahadev and Goddess Parvati.