The Mongolian collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin contains a unique Gungervaa shrine. Among the objects found inside were three tiny scrolls, wrapped in silk. Using ...

The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room includes more than two hundred bronzes, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet, China, and Mongolia between the thirteenth and early ...

Flickering light and faint sounds of chanting accompany the Rubin Museum of Art's expanded Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, where visitors to the Chelsea museum can pause in a space of contemplation. The ...

Step inside a flickering, incense-scented sanctuary—no passport required. This loan is part of a broader shift for the Rubin Museum, which, in early 2024, announced the closure of its New York City ...

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening at the Brooklyn Museum, where it features both familiar treasures and some not seen in 10 years. A central view of the Rubin Museum Tibetan ...

Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in ...

The "Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room" at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, assembled by Alice S. Kandell (all photos Melissa R. Kerin/Hyperallergic) The Rubin ...

For more than a century, three tiny Buddhist scrolls have sat tightly coiled in the collection of a German museum, their contents unknown. Now, thanks to cutting-edge technology, researchers have ...

You don’t need to be a Zen master to appreciate this green-roofed Buddhist shrine in rural China. Designed by Arch Studio, the contemporary shrine is partially buried to minimize site disruption and ...

Remains of a wooden structure at the Buddha’s birthplace dating to at least 2,500 years ago provide a rare glimpse of ancient religious practice in South Asia. Excavations in 2011 and 2012 beneath ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have digitally reconstructed one of three miniature scrolls found in a Mongolian Buddhist shrine, currently housed at the Ethnological Museum in ...