(Photo: Jason Eppink)According to legend, the Buddha gave a hermit a single strand of his own hair, which was made of gold. The hermit gave it to a local king named Tissa. In exchange, King Tissa used his magic to pull a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/02/The-Golden-Rock-Temple/(Photo: @muzintansaki)Isana Yamada is a graduate student in design at the Tokyo University for the Arts. For his graduation project, Rocket News 24 reports, he composed sculptures of 6 whales that float through space, co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/04/Seas-within-Whales-Represent-Buddhist-Realms/(Photo: M. Elsevier Stokmans)It looks like a statue of the Buddha. It is, in a way. But inside, there are the mummified remains of a human body. Tradition holds that they are a Buddhist monk who lived around the year 110...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/20/CT-Scan-Reveals-That-Statue-of-the-Buddha-Is-Actually-a-Mummy/Quidditch is a sport in the Harry Potter universe.... ...erious trouble with Thailand's National Office of Buddhism . The Phucket News reports:NOB Director Nopparat B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/12/Buddhist-Monks-Playing-Quidditch/(Photo: Reuters)Hua Chi, 70, is a monk at the Buddhist monastery in Tongren, Qinghai province, China. For 20 years, he has prostrated himself before an altar. When he was younger, he did it about 2,000-3,000 times a day....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/26/Monk-Praying-1000-Times-a-Day-for-20-Years-Has-Left-His-Footprints-Ingrained-in-the-Wood-Floor/(Photos: Another Tokyo)In Japanese Buddhism , butsudans are small cabinet-shaped shrines, ofte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/07/Drive-Through-Buddhist-Supply-Store/Long Bin-Chen, a New York-based artist originally from Taipei, sculpts books. He's especially fond of depicting the Buddha, such as this sculpture made out of phone books. The artist explained that this is an effort to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/28/budda-head-carved-out-of-phone-books/(YouTube Link) A mandala is a geometric design with special spiritual connotations in various Buddhist and Hindu traditions. The creation of sand paintings in the form of mandalas is a high art among Tibetan Buddhist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/26/time-lapse-video-of-the-creation-of-a-mandala-sand-painting/The remote Mustang caves of Nepal are yielding treasures and artworks that lead explorers to think it may be the legendary Shangri-La. Expeditions in 2007 and 2008 found 15th-century paintings, religious texts, and skele...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/himalayan-caves-may-be-shangri-la/(YouTube Link) The Chiang Mai Yi Peng Festival is an Buddhist holy day in Thailand. That evening, celebrants send send burning lanterns aloft, floating on hot air. According to YouTube user bugzila: [...]it is th...
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