Almost anyone who visits the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, finds themselves — quite literally — standing at the feet of a colossal 35.5-meter-high Buddha, carved from the region's ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In Silk Roads, the British Museum’s epic journey of a show, a sumptuous 7th-century wall painting portrays a courtly ...

Victoria and her consort furnished the corridor with chairs, side tables, large pagodas and Chinese porcelain, including an incense burner in the shape of a Buddha. The Surveyor of the King’s ...

“The inferences drawn in the literature at large certainly don’t follow ... or a placebo to participants in a chalice-shaped incense burner from Mexico that Jesse had given the team.

Dr. Griffiths’s laboratory looked like a living room, with a couch, a selection of spiritual and art books and a shelf holding a Buddha statue ... a chalice-shaped incense burner from Mexico ...

The two other introductory items are large ... incense holders which may have been meant to serve as fragrant perches for visitations from the fearsome gods portrayed. Image Incense burner.

I prefer the Ming style.” The museum is a paradise for lovers of incense and burners. Visitors can view a large number of bronze vessels used in temples and royal courts. It also displays more than ...

Hang stuck with Heineken, but the rest of the group polished off a large bottle of Johnny ... where a sitting Buddha looks out over an incense burner and an offering of food — a basket of ...

The first one is big with many huge pillars engraved with meaningful sentences ... The exposed portions of the courtyard contain incense burners, and give a view of the remarkable porcelain dioramas ...