The first part of a collection of Indian and Islamic art from a Kidderminster vendor sold for £10,000, with another 50 lots ...

A new gallery which explores how artefacts from around the world came to be part of Birmingham Museums' collections opens at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 10 May 2025.

Mother's Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what motherhood means in different religions and cultures. As a scholar of ...

Before he was reincarnated in human form, Buddha is said to have lived as an elephant many times. The Elephant Transit home within Udawalawe National Park — one of several wildlife reserves ...

French colonial grande dame, Raffles Hotel Le Royal, Phnom Penh is the epitome of Khmer history. Built in 1929, this stylish ...

Many religious types insist that the soul exists and it outlives physical death. They support the idea of the immortality of the soul. Most scientists contradict the existence of immaterial soul or ...

Their purity of spirit and body is signaled by the startling whiteness of the elephant and of the cloth ... an “Awakened One,” that is, a Buddha. According to Buddhist theory, there are two ways in ...

Discover a slice of Japan in Budapest’s Ferenc Hopp Museum's renovated garden – free access from May, showcasing Asian flora ...

Once back in Bangkok, we spent the late afternoon at the Bangkok Art and Culture ... honours the legendary elephant that carried the King bearing relics of the Buddha to this spot.

FREE, 3-5 May OF THE OAK: One of the oldest trees at Kew Gardens is the focus of world-premiere digital art commission ... of these world religions such as Buddha, and how they spread across ...

Today, Cambodian Buddhists—perhaps descendants of the lordly Khmers—still congregate at the temples, lighting sticks of incense in front of statues of Buddha. Chatting quietly among themselves ...