A visitor takes pictures in front of lanterns on the eve of the Buddha’s birthday at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) ...

Images, especially of faces, are a powerful way to communicate. I asked a friend in Jeonju, South Korea, when and where the Buddha became fat.

Significant anthropomorphic images of the Buddha began to emerge in Northern India in the first century AD, some 600 years after Buddha Siddhartha Gautama lived and died. From the end of the 1st ...

What are thought to be China’s oldest known bronze Buddha images have been discovered in Shaanxi province. The two sculptures were unearthed in 2021 in a tomb from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 ...