It shows how the statue had been worshipped not as an individual but as Daigongen, a Buddhist deity in the form of a Shinto god. The statue was previously owned by the chief priest of Senryuin ...

Along a small street in Nepal's Bhaktapur city sits an unassuming building with a strange name - the Museum of Stolen Art.

Why were some Hindu temples, unlike English cathedrals, richly decorated with erotic sculpture? Where the Christian god endured unbearable ... that Shiva himself was sitting there having a class ...

Related: America's Most Iconic Monument: History and Symbolism Behind The Statue Of Liberty The statue of Jatayu depicts the ...

Norblin rose to the occasion by painting beautiful murals of Hindu gods, entire scenes from Hindu epics Mahabharata and Ramayana and even the country's famed tigers, leopards and elephants in his ...

Devotees offer flowers and flower garlands to Hindu deities such as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth; Ganesha, the remover of obstacles; or the warrior goddess Durga. India’s wealthiest temple ...

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to rivers and bodies of water across India to pray to the sun god as part of the ...

Chaturvedi's statement came after the Sai statue controversy ... in Lucknow as well. The Hindu Mahasabha argues that Sai Baba cannot be placed in the category of Hindu gods and goddesses, and ...

A new hike through the rice paddies and forested interior of Bali offers a meaningful way to experience Indonesia’s ‘Island of the Gods’, without the crowds.

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...