EditorialSome nuns scroll through the prayer texts on iPads, introduced to minimize the use of paper, at Druk Amitabha Nunnery, on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 3, 2023. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialChangpeng Zhao, chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in Singapore, on May 29, 2021. (Ore Huiying/The New York Times)
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EditorialChina: The young Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 - 7 February 1799) during the first year of his reign. Hanging scroll painting by Giuseppe Castiglione (19 July 1688 - 17 July 1766), 1736
EditorialRichard Serra with his sculpture “Combined and Separated,” consisting of 50-ton forged-steel rounds for his show at Gagosian Gallery, August 19, 2019. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialAt a protest on Friday, May 2, 2022, against restrictions on women praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a woman holds a Torah scroll that was smuggled in. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
EditorialJapan: Tokugawa Ieyasu (31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616), founder and first ruler of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868). Hanging scroll painting by Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674), 17th century
EditorialChina / Japan: Xuanzang (Hsuan-tsang, c. 602 – 664) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler and translator who travelled to India seeking Buddhist knowledge during the early Tang Dynasty. Hanging scroll painting, Kamakura Period (14th cent
EditorialChina: Emperor Xuanzu (Zhao Hongyi, 899-956), father of the first two Song emperors Taizu and Taizong, honoured posthumously as founding ancestor of the Song Dynasty. Hanging scroll painting, Song Dynasty (960-1279)
EditorialJapan: Empress Jingu (c.169 - 269 CE), supposedly setting foot in Korea. Jingu was consort to Emperor Chuai, and she also served as Regent (209-269), scroll painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), 1880
EditorialJosh Spiegel, whose mother Judy perished in the Champlain Tower South condominium collapse, holds a Torah Scroll during a service at the Shul of Bal Harbour, a Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Surfside, Fla., July 18, 2021. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)