In a dimly lit workshop in eastern China, craftsman Zhang measured and shaped a block of wood into a foot as dozens of ...

A look inside a Queens studio where Buddhas, sneakers and swans are carved with reverence and the knowledge that beauty, like ice, is fleeting.

SAGYIN, Myanmar (Reuters) – The fine white dust that shrouds much of his northern Myanmar village also covers sculptor Chin Win as he leans over a half-finished Buddha statue. “We are blessed to carve ...

For decades, workshops in a village in Suzhou, China perfected the art of carving Buddhist art pieces for temples. But ...

In eastern China, artisans who have spent decades shaping wooden Buddhas fear that when they stop working, the craft may stop ...

WASHINGTON – For nearly nine decades, the Cosmic Buddha statue stood alone at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art. Museumgoers would pass by the headless, handless statue, a relic of sixth-century ...

Archaeologists and cultural activists say Buddhist rock carvings in the Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are fading fast and urgently need a well-thought-out preservation ...

IN a dimly lit workshop in eastern China, craftsman Zhang measured and shaped a block of wood into a foot as dozens of ...

SAGYIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - The fine white dust that shrouds much of his northern Myanmar village also covers sculptor Chin Win as he leans over a half-finished Buddha statue. "We are blessed to carve ...