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CultureMagazine | Openings, What's in a Painting?
The Dancing Skeletons
A Himalayan art expert explains the meaning and ritual uses of these "lords of the funeral pyre."

The Greatest Fullness
With a reverence for the natural world, Ito Jakuchu’s artwork highlights the buddhanature in each of its subjects.

The Buddhas Go to Washington
The Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. features a new, three-year-long exhibition, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia.

A 1,500-Year-Old Monastery Teaches Buddhism to Chinese Millennials with Stop-Animation Shorts
Founded in 2011, Longquan Comic and Animation Group shoots its Buddhist-themed, stop-motion animation shorts in a mountain cave in Beijing’s Fenghuangling Nature Park. Longquan Monastery‘s abbot, Venerated Master Xueching, who is also Vice Chairman and…

Zen Moves Through
A conversation with Guggenheim curator Sandhini Poddar about how Buddhist teachings helped inspire India's preeminent modernist painter, V.S. Gaitonde

The Robert Frost Kickball Club
A poem on the no-self of DJ Koan

Tashi Mannox: Calligrapher
A short film about the work of Sanskrit and Tibetan calligrapher Tashi Mannox

Five Questions for Sarah Ruhl
The playwright's newest, The Oldest Boy, tells the story of an American mother’s dilemma after her child is recognized as a high Buddhist lama.

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