If you’re visiting the ‘Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead’ exhibition at the British Museum (mentioned on this blog a few weeks ago) you might want to extend your stay with a visit to the free, smaller exhibition, ‘Images and Sacred Texts: Buddhism Across Asia’, open until April 2011.

The Buddhist religion centres on the ‘three jewels’; the Buddha, his teachings, and the community of the faithful, and this exhibition explores how these are depicted across geographical and chronological distances. The exhibition brings together an astonishing range of images and artefacts from Asian lands over the last two thousand years, amongst which the exquisitely decorated Buddhist texts, on palm leaves and paper, promise a fascinating insight into the spread of this faith and its philosophy through and beyond Asia. Again, do leave comments below after your visit!