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Hand and sometimes body gestures used in a ritualistic or spiritual manner, they are mostly associated with Hinduism and Buddhism for meditation, ceremonies and dance.

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The process of intertwining threads in order to produce cloth, weaving can include knitting, using a loom or simple braiding.

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An animal or natural object used to represent a tribe, clan, or even family ancestry based on a spiritual attachment.

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A technique of painting with ink that is either splashed or splattered, used most often to create landscape paintings.

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Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica

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Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life

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The handscroll is a long, narrow, horizontal scroll format in East Asia used for calligraphy or paintings. A handscroll usually measures up to several meters in length and around 25-40 cm in line. Handscrolls are generally viewed starting from the right end.

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re is a resist-dyed cloth produced and worn by the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria in West Africa. The Yoruba label adire, which means "tied and dyed," was first applied to indigo-dyed cloth decorated with resist patterns around the turn of the twentieth century

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Threads that are strung vertically on a loom and stay stationary during the weaving process.

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A motif commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasty. The design typically consists of a zoomorphic mask with a pair of raised eyes and typically no lower jaw area.

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A person who delays enlightenment to help teach others

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An apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.

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is the sanctum sanctorum, the innermost sanctum of a Hindu temple where resides the murti of the primary deity of the temple

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Dao – “The Way”: those who know the Dao, do not speak of it, those who speak of it, do not know it

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Was the form of Chinese characters used on oracle bones: animal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing.

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A technique using splashed ink in brushwork painting, especially for painting a landscape painting

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The birthplace of the prophet Mohammed and the holiest sight of Islamic culture. The festival one year bring thousands.

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Kondo is a small building built for Buddhist to meditate

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Woodcuts also used in wood block printing the taking out of negative space

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Stupa is the definition for a dome like structure as in the great stupa

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Buddhism begins when Siddartha Gautama seeks and achieves enlightenment. There are four nobles truths and has an eightfold path.

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Ushnisha is a sacred topknot that is placed on the head of a good Buddha.

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Bodhisattva is a Roman style of a Buddhist figure. Its a person who delays enlightenment to stay on earth and teach others.

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Hinduism deals with three gods, which are Brahma ( creator of all things), Vishnu (sustainer), and Shiva ( destroyer). The gods restore the balance of good and evil.

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URNA
The mark on the forehead of a Buddha is called an urna and is described in the suttas as a tuft of white hair. On Buddha statues, the urna is sometimes represented as a single curl.

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Pagoda
A tower-like, multistory, solid or hollow structure made of stone, brick, or wood, usually associated with a Buddhist temple complex and therefore usually found in East and Southeast Asia, where Buddhism was long the prevailing religion.

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MINARET
A tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

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ISLAM

Muslims believe several prophets were sent to teach Allah’s law. They respect some of the same prophets as Jews and Christians, including Abraham, Moses, Noah and Jesus. Muslims contend that Muhammad was the final prophet.

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A college for Islamic instruction

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Is a resist-dyed cloth produced and worn by the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria in West Africa

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A defied ancestral spirit in the mythology of Pueblo Indians

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A natural object or animal that is to be believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem

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a skinny tower attached to a mosque with balconies; the balconies are where the muezzin, or crier, calls the people to pray

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"splashed ink" technique in brushwork painting; done by Chinese Chan Buddhist painters; mostly landscapes

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a mythical animal, or monster mask, in ancient Chinese art; bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty

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a representation of the cosmos consisting of geometric shapes, each with an attribute of a deity; ritualistic and used in Hinduism and Buddhism to help meditate

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The Birthplace of Prophet Mohammed and the holiest sight of the islamic faith. All muslim prayers are directed towards Mecca.

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Similar in history and beliefs as Christianity, and Judaism. But based on the teaching of the prophet Mohammed.

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a visual art related to decorative texts

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Comes to Japan from China in the 13th century, Enlightenment attained through meditation, Spontaneous and Intuitive,Influenced poetry, calligraphy , painting, gardens, and flower arrangements

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"Taoism"
Dao means "The Way"
Embodies the harmony of the opposites. Does not try to bring order to affairs but live in harmony with nature.

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Human beings are fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through self cultivation and self creation.

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Four Noble Truths:
1. Existence is pain
2. The cause of pain is desire
3. To eliminate pain, desire must first be eliminated
4. To eliminate desire, one must follow the Eightfold path

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3 gods:
1. Brahma- the creator of all things
2. Vishnu- the sustainer
3. Shiva- the destroyer
All three gods intervene in human affairs to restore the balance of good and evil.

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A Mihrab is a niche in the wall of a mosque that points the way to Mecca

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printing from raised images

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a print of a type made from a design cut in a block of wood

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a symbolic hand gesture used in Hindu and Buddhist ceremonies

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Kondo (Golden Hill) is a meditation hall where statuses of Buddha are kept.

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the craft or action of forming fabric by interlacing threads

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Ceramic glazes are silica based liquid paints that are applied to ceramic works and turn into a glasslike substance that fuses with the clay when fired in a kiln

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Oracle bone writing is done primarily on turtle shells as well as other animal bones. They were used by kings to get answers to unanswerable questions.

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A domelike structure probably derived from Indian funeral mounds

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Japanese prints that depict scenes of the "floating world", including landscapes, popular entertainments, and theater scene actors.

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A technique in which the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are left raised, while remaining areas are cut away.

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A long painting in ink on paper, which viewers contemplate by scrolling from hand to hand

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Calligraphy is used in traditional Chinese paintings and is decorative  texts or landscapes.

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Linocuts use the same method as woodcutting, but uses linoleum instead of wood. The linoleum is softer and has no grain, so it is much easier to cut, but it also makes fine detail work nearly impossible.

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Woodcuts are created by cutting the relief of an image into a plank of soft wood along the grain.

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Mandalas are spiritual and ritual symbols in Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe.