Have you ever dreamed of entering a wonderland as fascinating and beautiful as paradise? Take a tour to Namtso Lake in Tibet, and you are sure to realize this dream. With the meaning "Heavenly Lake" ...

Silver frost highlight the marvelous snow-capped mountains, and gilded Buddhist architectures in southwest China.[Photo provided to People.cn] The incense gave me my first real taste of the mountain's ...

Buddhism comes from Hinduism, in somewhat the same way that Christianity derives from Judaism: the Buddha, before his enlightenment, is said to have been Hindu, just as Jesus was a Jew. And not ...

"Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art" is an eclectic mix of statues, paintings and tapestries exhibited in the Buddhist wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through May 1, 2011. Most of the pieces on ...

Appendix (35 p., last group): Barua, B. M. Books of stories of heaven and hell. siris_sil_879865 ...

A quick survey of the 133 extant paintings of the Goryeo Kingdom (936-1332) discloses a seemingly pre-occupation of the afterlife and how to arrive there in proper Buddhist fashion. Of these 133 ...