Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

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For 11 of those 30 billionaire art collectors, the two days of losses from the stock market lowered their total net worth by 3 percent or more. Alice Walton—the founder of the Crystal Bridges ...

On 3 March, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced the initiation of a voluntary repatriation to Nepal. The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha ...

With your mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death." Buddha propagates the idea of Nirvana; a place of perfect peace and happiness where a person’s desires and suffering ...

The Buddha statue was first identified by the online ... and “partnership with our colleagues from Nepal.” Art Institute of Chicago Nepal collection, 2023 (photo Emiline Smith/Hyperallergic ...

the serpent king Muchalinda rose to form a protective cave around the Buddha, permitting him to remain in deep mediation,” according to the Art Institute. In recent decades, intense new pressure ...

Street signs hang outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street in New York on Feb. 3, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) · ANGELA WEISS via Getty Images Whether this market is ...