Buying authentic Buddhist iconography
by Jieyi Xie
People are easily offended when one is talking about imitations of Buddha's statues and amulets because religious issues are always sensitive. Even if you are an expert in the trading of Buddha's statues and amulets, one good advice is not to meddle in the issues of originality of the statues that people have bought. It may cause discontentment among friends and families and worse come to worst, relationships
by Nancy Houser
In order to appreciate art of any form, one needs to fully understand the artist and what the art work represents. And each piece
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John Daido Loori a Zen Master who founded Zen Mountain Monastery
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