What prompted the idea for the course? I adopted this course from a colleague when I took on my assistant professor position here at University of Illinois, Chicago. Over the years, the class content ...

THE advance of archaeological study is one of the most remarkable cultural achievements of the Chinese since the advent of the Communist regime in 1949. It has not been merely a matter of impressive ...

Introduction. Discovery of the Amaravati Stūpa: Early Excavations and Interpretations / Akira Shimada -- Part 1. Historical and Religious Contexts -- 1. The South Deccan Iron Age: Antecedents to Early ...

The aged man put an enormous bow to his chest and shot an arrow straight ahead in a ceremony practiced by 21 generations of his family, bowmakers to the Japanese emperors. Turning to the holy Tibetan ...

There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early 8th century, making them some of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the ...

Sinhala Vihare found in Nagarjunakonda If not for invasions, some sites would have become the biggest Buddhist centres in the world Bodh Gaya was controlled by Sri Lankan Buddhist monks at one time Dr ...

Samuel Glasscock has a secret in his Chuckatuck back yard. Standing there one evening, the 71-year-old chairman of the Louise Obici Memorial Hospital Board and former state delegate, fingers aside a ...

World Archaeology, Vol. 27, No. 2, Buddhist Archaeology (Oct., 1995), pp. 318-335 (18 pages) A brief historical setting of Sokkuram in the context of Silla unification of Korea will be followed by a ...

MIMS — It seems unlikely that this rural city of 7,000 would be full of surprises. But it is. Here you’ll find the Vietnamese White Sands Buddhist Center, and the three largest Buddha statues in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban Islamic movement Monday ordered all statues in the war-ravaged country to be smashed, putting a question mark over the fate of ancient and ...