Boston, Massachusetts.- Two new galleries recently opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). One celebrates rare sculptural works from India and neighboring countries (South Asia) and Southeast Asia. The other will showcase rotations of the rich painting traditions of India, Korea, the Himalayas, and Persia beginning with an important collection of Indian works in the exhibition “Gems of Rajput Painting”. The two new galleries will reflect a broad range of cultures — from Iran to the west and Indonesia to the east, and from the Himalayas to the north and Sri Lanka to the south — reinforcing the global nature of the MFA’s encyclopedic collection. Highlights include important Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain works, such as a rare 5th century painted fragment featuring Buddha’s half-brother, Nanda, from the caves in Ajanta, a UNESCO World Heritage site in central India—the only known work to have left Ajanta—and an elaborately carved 11th century sculpture of the elephant-headed Hindu god of good fortune, Ganesh. The new galleries are located on Level 1 near the Museum’s Huntington Avenue Entrance.