Mystery, understanding flicker within Buddhist artworks from Sri Lanka at Stanford exhibition By Kenneth Baker , Chronicle Art Critic March 30, 2005 CANTOR30 CAPTION: Kandy period, Standing Buddha ...

The evolution of the arts in Sri Lanka can, historically, be traced to three distinct events: The adoption of Buddhism as the State religion in the Anuradhapura era, the bifurcation between the ...

Sri Lanka’s art has often been considered an interesting but provincial stepchild of India’s; ... Buddhism and Christianity into an already rich mix of indigenous beliefs, ...

The tooth was brought to Sri Lanka in the fourth century. Since ancient times, it has played an important role in local politics because whoever holds the relic rules Sri Lanka. A pair of large ...

“The Jeweled Isle: Art From Sri Lanka,” a modest exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a sometimes captivating, sometimes peculiar gathering of Hindu and especially Buddhist ...

The island kingdom's capital for more than 1,000 years and the centre of Buddhist scholarship and the arts, ... In the past, Sri Lanka gave old Siam our Buddhist culture.

Often surprisingly the author describes the deep-seated relationship with Buddhist art. First published in 1990, its 752 pages are closely packed with 1589 illustrations and text. Forty copies of this ...

Buddhist narrative in regional art form will be showcased at Buddhavanam, the Buddhist theme park at Nagarjunasagar, shortly. A new initiative of illustrating the life and mission of the Buddha ...

In 2002, he founded the Sri Lanka Association of Buddhist Studies (SLABS), an academic and professional organization for Buddhist scholars in Sri Lanka. Additionally, in 2017, he co-founded the ...

Speaker. Dr Rita Langer (University of Bristol) Chair. Dr Lindsey Askin (University of Bristol) Abstarct “If the term "Buddhism" is to be meaningful, it must be connected to people, to Buddhists, who ...

Our cultural landscape: From Anuradhapura to Kandy . The evolution of the arts in Sri Lanka can, historically, be traced to three distinct events: The adoption of Buddhism as the State religion in ...