In ancient times, people travelled for trade and the spread of Buddhism, which facilitated the spread of Ganesh worship to other regions. Countries like Cambodia, China, Afghanistan, Indonesia ...

The visual connection between Ganesha and the dwarf-like misshapen corpulent yakshas, keepers of treasures, also found in Buddhist and Jain lore is unmistakable. He appears as a distinct deity in ...

Lord Ganesha is known by different names in Japan ... The worship of Kangiten is part of the tantric form of Buddhism that emerged in Odisha. This practice first reached China and then moved ...

“These are straight from India,” he said, pointing out wall paintings of Hindu gods, including the elephant deity Ganesha, in a sea of Buddhist figures. On an adjacent wall, the Chinese ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...

Chitrakar also finished an enormous painting of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha, who is worshipped in both of Nepal’s major religions, Newar Buddhism and Hinduism. The artist had to climb a ...

Devdutt Pattanaik wrote, “As Buddhist monks travelled along with ... there are ‘more than 250 temples across Japan dedicated to Ganesha’, who is locally known by different names like ...

03/29/2024 March 29, 2024 Despite Thai society being mostly Buddhist, statues of Hindu deities can be found all over the country. The elephant-headed god Ganesh is widely revered.

the Japanese version of Lord Ganesha. This deity's worship dates back to the 8th-9th centuries CE and is part of tantric Buddhism. Kangiten has evolved from a minor deity to a god of joy and bliss ...