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 ...

The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly submerged by ongoing floods in Southern China last week, reports Smithsonian Magazine. A ...

The statue, made of bricks and measuring 2.4 by 2.5 metres, was found with parts of its head and limbs broken and separated. It was discovered by a fisherman in Bokeo province near the border with ...

For ages, the human form has been the subject of artistic interpretation. By studying sculptures from throughout the centuries, archaeologists and historians have been able to piece together the ...

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 ...

A large Buddha statue delighted devotees at its inauguration in India. The 20ft sculpture was revealed on Prajna Bodhi Mountain in Bodh Gaya, Bihar - Buddhism's sacred heart - drawing monks and ...

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 ...

A little more than two months after someone destroyed a large Buddha head at a Sugar House shrine, the broken terra cotta statue has been repaired and the sacred space reopened Sunday in a ...