Odisha has a rich Buddhist heritage. Ratnagiri, part of the ‘Diamond Triangle’ of Ratnagiri, Udaygiri, and Lalitgiri, had a ...

Carefully arranged between the tree roots, large sections of carved ... to the middle and right heads of a seven-headed Naga ...

Its eyelids flutter and mouth opens and it begins its dance. Leading the dance on the street is a playful Big Head Buddha, who teases and taunts the lion along the way with its palm-leaf fan.

My object today is a stone head of the Buddha, from Borobudur ... ones above - and at the top of the whole structure is a large domed shrine. As you climb through the different levels, you ...