The Maitreya Buddha statue at Vinh Trang Pagoda sits atop a platform, surrounded by greenery. Photo by VnExpress/Tran Quynh Vinh Trang Pagoda is one of the oldest temples in southern Vietnam ...

The Thousand-Hand, Thousand-Eye Guan Yin statue, a masterpiece of Vietnamese wooden sculpture. The Three Buddha statues symbolize past, present, and future in Buddhist philosophy. The Nine-Story Lotus ...

The left hand is brought across the chest in a gesture that researchers have called “uncommon” in period Khmer art. The Buddha head ... and parts of Vietnam. The best-known site is Angkor ...

An archaeological excavation team was shocked to find a fully intact Buddha ... statue from the 12 th or 13 th century measuring 3.75 feet tall. The torso find at a Cambodian temple matches a ...

The Maitreya Buddha statue at Vinh Trang Pagoda sits atop a platform, surrounded by greenery. Photo by VnExpress/Tran Quynh Vinh Trang Pagoda is one of the oldest temples in southern Vietnam, dating ...

a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to the 12 th or 13 th century—to Cambodia’s National ...