which was renamed "The Prison of the Gods." All the pre-Buddhist cults were suppressed. Spirit mediums left the shrines to become strolling musicians, dancers, and actors. But the people found it ...

Buddhists dealt with this in various ways. In her paper ‘From God to Demon, from Demon to God: Brahma and other Hindu deities in Late Buddhist Art of Eastern India’, Bautze-Picron shows that ...

Jayavarman VII, a Buddhist pacifist, was forced to give up his pacifism and rise to the throne at the age of 60. But once seated on the throne, he built Angkor Thom. The architecture was a fusion of ...

Thangkas are Tibetan paintings of Buddhist gods, on either cotton or silk which play an important role in Buddhism. The word “thangka” literally means “rolled up”. They earned this name ...

NARA--A special exhibition of statues of the Buddhist god Bishamonten selected from temples and museums opened at the Nara National Museum here on Feb. 4. The show, “Bishamonten--Guardian of the ...

As a symbol of good fortune, Hotei was included in the set of Seven Lucky Gods, which developed in Japan by the 17th century. Along with Hotei, this set brought together other Buddhist gods – ...