Images

Worship of Bodhi Tree, sandstone, Bharhut, c. 2nd century BCE. Indian Buddhist Art exhibition, Indian Museum, Kolkata.

Worship at a stupa, sandstone fence-rail from the Bharhut Stupa, Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh, India, early 2nd century BCE. Exhibit in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA.

Buddha sculpture, Stupa 1, Sanchi, 4th-5th centuries CE. This is one of four such images placed at each of the four gateways of the complex.

James McLaughlin (l. 1842-1923), US Indian Inspector of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, best known for ordering the arrest of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890 and requesting the troops that participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre...

Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson, l. c. 1856-1932), Paiute Shaman and visionary who preached the Ghost Dance beginning in 1889.

The Ghost Dance of the Oglala Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency, 1889-1890. Image by artist Frederic Remington, 1890.

Chief Kicking Bear (l. 1845-1904) of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Nation in 1891; photo taken while he was a prisoner at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Kicking Bear is credited by some scholars with creating the ghost shirt used during the Ghost Dance...

Modern-day Caddo dancers of the Caddo Cultural Club, Binger, Oklahoma, 2008. The Caddo nation of Oklahoma, notably, have continued to keep the practice of the Ghost Dance alive into the 21st century.

King Ajatashatru Venerates the Buddha, from the Bharhut Stupa, c. 100-80 BCE. Indian Museum, Kolkata.

Ashoka with his two queens visiting the deer park, Sanchi Stupa 1 Southern Gateway.