The city's historic monuments - Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and the excavated remains of the great Imperial Palace - provide a vivid picture of life in the Japanese capital in the 8th century, a ...
She studied Buddhist art with a focus on the Xiangtangshan caves for her PhD and has since built a career as a “monuments woman” – a term first coined to describe people dedicated to the ...
I'm at Borobudur, one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world, and the huge, square, terraced pyramid in front of me, is nothing less than the Buddhist view of the cosmos, in stone.