This statue of Buddha, measuring 2.78 meters (9.1 feet) in height, is enshrined in Muryangsujeon Hall in Buseok Temple, which is located in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang. Called a sojo bulsang, this ...

XINING - For Tibetan craftsman Kelsang Tsering, the highlight of his daily work is bringing clay Buddha figurines, mostly seen in monasteries, to common households. From clay selection and sculpting ...

A magnificent solid gold Buddha statue, weighing over 12,000 pounds, was discovered in Thailand after being hidden under ...

If you’ve been following our recent travel reports from Nara, you’ll know that there’s a set of four sites known as the Four Great Temples of Yamato (Yamato being the historical name for the region).

For centuries, an enormous clay statue of the Buddha sat in Wat Traimit, a temple in Thailand. Its origins unknown, it had become something of a fixture. The temple monks would tend the statue, fixing ...

For 15 centuries, before they were dynamited by the Taliban in April 2001 for being "idolatrous," two giant Buddha statues dominated the valley of Bamiyan, high in the Hindu Kush mountains of ...