Shao Yi, “Producing Totem” (2010), wooden mold, dimensions variable (all images courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art) BEIJING — Just as European art has long been influenced by that of nonwestern ...

Observing that "Buddhist meditation has been seen as at best a harmless mystical preoccupation, at worst a socially irresponsible self-indulgence," Conradi (Iris Murdoch) offers an idiosyncratic and ...

Meditation teacher Anā layo (The Signless and the Deathless) presents a wise if somewhat esoteric exploration of emptiness and its relation to Buddhist tradition. Drawing on two texts from the Pā li ...

The principles of Buddhism have long inspired the avant-garde (most famously John Cage, who used chance as a way of negating the ego), but the works in this thoughtful show, centered on concepts of ...