In Thailand, the practice of using Talipot hand fans has survived thousands of years
The ‘Story of the Novice Monk’ suggests Talipot fans were used by monastics during the during the lifetime of Gotama Buddha over 2500 years ago.
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The ‘Story of the Novice Monk’ suggests Talipot fans were used by monastics during the during the lifetime of Gotama Buddha over 2500 years ago.
With fifty-four superlative Asian artworks spanning the tenth to twenty-first centuries, this international loan exhibition explores portrayals of hell and conceptions of the afterlife across Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam.
The depictions are inspired from the Phra Malai manuscript on the travels of the enlightened monk through the different Buddhist netherworlds.
I, on behalf of the Sangha Supreme Council of Thailand, the Sangha Assembly of Wat Phra Chetuphon (Wa…
A delegation met Pope Francis to mark golden jubilee of meeting between Pope Paul VI and the 17th supreme Buddhist patriarch