Photographs of paintings in galleries and museums in Bali, including two collections telling the Life of the Buddha.
Paintings of the 28 Buddhas and Buddha Metteyya
Processed photographs of the 28 Buddhas, plus Buddha Metteyya, along with text on Photo Dharma.
Final Set of Photos from Bali: The Collections
Paintings from the Thousand Buddhas Caves Published
An online publication of Aurel Stein’s work on the paintings he brought back from Dunhuang.
New Photographs from Singapore
Ajanta Caves, Day Two
Pitalkhora Caves, near Kannad, Maharasthra
Bhikkhu Sumedha: His Teachings and Paintings
A new website to house the teachings and paintings of the great German monk Bhikkhu Sumedha.
Bhikkhu Sumedha’s Paintings on Photo Dharma
Publication of photographs of a large collection of Bhikkhu Sumedha’s paintings on the Photo Dharma website.
New Album: Modern Murals at Wat Pangla
Publication of photographs of modern murals from a Ubosot in Sadao showing the Life of the Buddha.
Indian Buddhist Art Schools (6 Maps)
A new set of six maps showing the main schools of Buddhist Art in India and their provenance, together with further information about the schools.
Murals Illustrating the Life of King Mangrai
Publication of photographs of murals illustrating the Life of King Mangrai, founder of Lanna, from Wat Chedi Ngam by Fabian Frederick Blandford on the Photo Dharma website.
Photographs from Wat Arun, the Temple of the Dawn
New photo album from Wat Arun, the Temple of the Dawn, in Bangkok showing the Prangs, Viharn, Pavillions and Murals from the Ubosot.
Video of Murals in Viharn Lai Kham, Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai
Video of murals inside Viharn Lai Kham, which date from the mid-19th century and illustrate two non-Canonical Jataka Stories, using pan and zoom techniques to animate the photographs.
Sofan Chan: Buddha Paintings
As anyone regularly following this blog will know I like to see old subjects from the Buddhist tradition reinvented and seen in a different light. It seems to me that this shows that the tradition is really alive and that it hasn’t degenerated, at least in places, into a “souvenir art”, with no vitality. I…