Explore Buddhism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community.

Explore Hinduism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community.

Discover Bodh Gaya, one of several sights in India associated with the birth of Buddhism.

A Hindu temple can be a simple structure by the side of the road or a large complex including many buildings. Temples serve as dwelling places for deities, surrounded by markets selling offerings and flowers. The inner sanctuaries are small and intended for a few worshippers at a time. Above the sanctuaries are central towers, shaped like the mountain home of the gods and brightly painted. Created by Asian Art Museum.

Ogawa Machiko's artistic connection to raw natural beauty is linked to her time living abroad with her anthropologist husband as well as to the seaside landscape of her hometown of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. "It is my passion for the earth that drives my continual search for the essential in art. The vessel form, with both interior and exterior space, enables me to best pursue this quest -- it is not about making vases. Rather, I am inspired by the concept of emptiness within the whole." * Ogawa studied ceramics with three Living National Treasures in Tokyo and at the Ecole des Arts et Metiers in Paris, then continued her studies in Burkina Faso in West Africa and in South America. Created by Asian Art Museum.

Lam Tung Pang is a Hong Kong-based artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing, performance, video, and installation. Assembling traditional iconography and found objects, Lam creates layered allegorical landscapes that engage themes of history, memory, and time. These works capture the nuanced emotions that seep out from beneath the weight of drastic political change. Lam received his BFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his MFA from Central Saint Martins in London.

This video explores the significance and working of jade in China. Learn more about jade on the Asian Art Museum's education website. Created by Asian Art Museum.

The work of Zheng Chongbin, an American artist born in China and based in the Bay Area for more than three decades, has evolved from traditional figurative ink painting to a multidisciplinary practice encompassing abstract painting, installation, time-based media, and public art. His first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast, Zheng Chongbin: I Look for the Sky consists of two site-specific commissions that manipulate light and space, shifting our perspective of the ever-changing world. Created by Asian Art Museum.

A short documentary on the stupa, a hemispherical mound that represents the burial mound of the Buddha.