“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

to bring to life a Buddhist teaching about the arrival of the Amida Buddha to welcome the spirits of the dead. He still ...

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Archaeologists working at the a World Heritage Site in Cambodia have unearthed 12 sandstone statues, some of which are over a thousand years old. The discovery took place in Angkor—one of three ...

The Auxikko pattern was coined from taking inspiration from ancient Japanese Kikkō (hexagonal plates built into Samurai body armor) and auxetics, which are materials engineered to grow strong ...

MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade's status as a Miami Heat legend was further cemented on Sunday as the franchise unveiled an eight-foot statue of the three-time NBA champion. Wade is the first player in Heat ...