A six-foot Samadhi Buddha statue carved from a massive white rock formation was ceremonially installed at Rangiri Dambulla National School grounds on June 6, in honour of retired Sub-Inspector of ...

"This event will be held to mark the 2,569th Buddha Poornima," he said. "Buddha and Ambedkar memorial will be built here on the land donated by local Dalit leaders, including the Ramadas family ...

The Buddha measures 151 feet long and is 50 meters tall, making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand.

Jade Buddha Temple is ranked #7 out of 10 things to do in Shanghai. ... One of the city's most popular attractions, the Jade Buddha Temple impresses visitors with its legion of statues.

A foreign man went viral on Thai social media after locals witnessed him making a wish and kissing a Naga statue in Phuket.Photos and videos of the incident were widely shared online. The Phuket Times ...

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

The Zhang Gong Patriarch on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, Hungary, in 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] A Dutch collector who says he bought the Zhang Gong Patriarch — an ancient ...

Buddhist monks sitting in protest inside the Bodh Gaya Temple on 24 February along with photos of Buddha, BR Ambedkar and Ravidas—a fifteenth-century saint and poet revered by the Dalit community. The ...

The Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, near Patna in Bihar, is of great significance to followers of Buddhism, as Gautam Buddha got Nirvana here. This temple has been controlled by the Bodh Gaya Temple Act ...

Mahâbodhi, or the great Buddhist temple under the Bodhi tree at Buddha-Gaya by Cunningham, Alexander, Sir, 1814-1893. Publication date 1892 Topics Buddha Gaya Temple, Art, Buddhist Publisher London, W ...

IN 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of men in masks fished out centuries-old artefact from the northernmost beachside of Fort Kochi at a depth of less than one metre. These intricately carved ...