The imagery of Asian religious sculptural figures can be bewildering. Distinguishing Chinese from Japanese and Indian from Thai can be a daunting challenge. In this primer I'll review the most common ...

With four scowling faces, 12 eyes, 12 arms, numerous weapons, skulls adorning the rim of his crown, severed heads dangling from his waist, human figures crushed beneath his feet and his consort ...

This statue of the Buddhist goddess Tara combines the spiritual and the sensual. The sculpture would have been used as a focus for meditation on the qualities Tara represents ? mercy and compassion.