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Art review: Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2012-03-15 21:32:22

<![CDATA[Art review: Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects]]>

Assigning Buddhism-related names to Lakers roster

2011-06-27 16:35:08

<![CDATA[Assigning Buddhism-related names to Lakers roster]]>

Artist John McCracken, whose work helped define L.A's postwar aesthetic, is dead at 76

2011-04-10 16:32:52

<![CDATA[Artist John McCracken, whose work helped define L.A's postwar aesthetic, is dead at 76]]>

John McCracken dies at 76; contemporary artist made geometric sculptures

2011-04-10 00:00:00

John McCracken, an artist whose fusion of painting with geometric sculpture in the mid-1960s came to embody an aesthetic distinctive to postwar Los Angeles, died Friday in New York. He was 76. McCracken had lived in Santa Fe, N.M., since 1994 and,...

In Paris, another look at the Roman Empire's influence -- this time, on Buddhist art

2010-05-06 16:32:51

Far East treasures in San Francisco

2009-12-13 00:00:00

Doris Duke. It's a mighty big name in philanthropic circles. The only child of tobacco and hydropower magnate James Buchanan Duke, she inherited his $80 million estate in 1925, when she was 12. The "poor little rich girl" grew into an elegant woman whose...

With new space, Seattle Art Museum expands its vision

2007-05-02 00:00:00

SEATTLE — When the Seattle Art Museum turns 75 next year, it intends to be not only the most important general art museum in the Pacific Northwest but to be nationally prominent too. It might just get its wish. On Saturday, a newly expanded...

China's latest manned rocket mission to include spacewalk

2008-09-25 00:00:00

China is scheduled today to launch its most ambitious space mission, including the program's first spacewalk, as this increasingly confident nation stakes a claim on the heavens while impressing people on Earth. The Shenzhou 7 is slated to blast off from...

From the archives: Sculptures, Paintings Eroded

1989-01-20 00:00:00

The Getty Conservation Institute and China have agreed to collaborate on the conservation of China's two foremost sites of ancient Buddhist art, involving thousands of sculptures and miles of wall paintings in 545 caves in the northern part of the...

Buddhism and the supernatural

2012-11-17 12:33:00

Editor’s note: This is the 10th part of an 11-part series on Buddhism. It is sometimes said that Buddhism is devoid of anything supernatural, including a divinity. Such a claim is, perhaps, overly simple. As is so often the case in speaking of any...

Pure Land Buddhism

2012-10-29 09:02:00

Editor’s note: This is the seventh of an 11-part series on Buddhism. � Philosophical Hinduism was based on the Upanishads, divinely revealed philosophical writings (shruti), which only men of the upper three classes were permitted to read. Later...

Vajrayana Buddhism

2012-11-06 11:58:00

Editor’s note: This is the eighth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. � Vajrayana, the religion of the Dalai Lama, is the third major group within Buddhism (after Theravada and Mahayana). It arose when Tantric Buddhism from India reached Tibet and...

A bust of the Chinese philosopher Confucius lies on the ground in an abandoned stone carving workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, located 250 km (155 miles) southwest of Beijing.

2011-12-07 00:00:00

Hello! My husband and I watch you every weekday morning! We wanted to send you a photo of our cat when he was hiding outside in our bamboo. His name is Bodhisattva and he is almost 2 years old. Thank you, Steph & Dave in Lacey, WA

2008-01-22 05:15:34