The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

Museum officials say they are voluntarily repatriating the object after learning that it had been stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley ...

Each spring, millions of Hindu cities and communities erupt in color, music, and laughter to celebrate Holi—one of the ...

(AP Video by Piyush Nagpal) Holi festival Holi celebration at the Lord Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 14 ...

We drove all the way from Shimoga to visit the ancient Amruteshvara temple at Amruthapura, built around 1000 years ago during ...

Nepal has a diverse array of cultures, traditions and languages that date back thousands of years. Contemporarily, it’s ...

Shiva is considered masculine, and conceptualised as pure consciousness -- call it soul, transcendent spirit, whatever that ...

which is brought from a forest near Guhyeshwari in Kathmandu and taken back to the Guhyeshwari Temple for puja after a salute by the Gurjuko Paltan (Ancient Nepal’s Army). Another part of the ...

The upraising of Chir gives the message that Holi has formally started in Nepal,' Gajendra Prasad Manandhar, Secretary of the working committee told ANI.

Nepal's vibrant Holi celebrations kicked off with the traditional ... The raising follows a celestial timing tradition dating back to the ancient Malla dynasty. Despite a reduction in the number of ...

According to the Balinese calendar, Nyepi, a “Day of Silence,” officially falls on March 29 at 6 a.m. after the new moon and lasts for 24 hours, during which time no public activities are ...

The Jerusalem Post stated, “The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced on Monday [Mar. 3,] that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture titled ‘Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda’ to ...