The world's largest stone Buddha statue, the Giant Buddha of Leshan, needs a repair, again. Less than three years after the completion of the latest large-scale facelift -- the seventh in over a ...

A man was killed after falling from a large Buddha statue and being impaled on another following a meth-fuelled rampage inside a temple, according to reports. The 49-year-old man assaulted a monk and ...

After drifting around for nearly a century abroad, a large stone Buddha head finally returned home to Taiyuan in North China's Shanxi Province on Saturday. The Buddha head statue is the 100th such ...

Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), during a time of great economic, political and cultural instability. With their economy struggling and their ethnic groups ...

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): A Buddha statue with a height of at least 2 meters has been excavated from a sandy area near the Mekong River in the northern Lao province of Bokeo. The statue unearthed Thursday ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the atomic bombing to provide emotional support for survivors, is finally coming home after disappearing for half a ...

Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), during a time of great economic, political and cultural instability. With their economy struggling and their ethnic groups ...

It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

Myanmar’s military regime unveiled a large Maravijaya Buddha statue in a massive religious ceremony, which critics describe as an attempt to distract from the junta’s brutal leadership. The military ...

Community leaders and residents say the $1 million Sellicks Hill statue is a great addition to the southern coastline — despite its face not being what many expected. Rather than depicting the fat, ...

BRAINTREE – Come October, passersby on Quincy Avenue and visitors to the Samantabhadra Buddhist Center in Braintree will see a striking display – a 9-foot, 4-ton jade statue of the Buddha. The ...