“It just seems to be a nexus where a lot of people connect,” said Daniel Choi, who teaches writing at Princeton and has been meditating in front of the Buddha statue since 2015. “It ...

The 20-meter-tall Maitreya Buddha statue in the Mekong Delta has been recognized as one of the world's most impressive giant ...

The addition of other temples turned the site into one of Buddhism's holiest sites. Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved ...

Today, the statue in the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center has become a hub for interfaith efforts and a ...

NAY PYI TAW (Xinhua): After more than three years of construction, Myanmar is preparing to unveil a giant sitting marble statue of Lord Buddha in its capital Nay Pyi Taw on Aug. 1, the Information ...

Big Buddha is a giant statue of Buddha encased in Burmese alabaster that towers over Phuket from the peak of Mount Nagakerd. Construction on Big Buddha began in 2007, and Phuketians are proud of ...

The infant she holds is said to be 15 meters long, the same height as the famous Great Buddha statue ... height as the statue's shoulder and enjoy an expansive view. Japan's giant Kannon statues ...

The first Buddhist temple in China was built here in Sichuan Province in the 1st century A.D. in the beautiful surroundings of the summit Mount Emei. The addition of other temples turned the site into ...

Significant anthropomorphic images of the Buddha began to emerge in Northern India in the first century AD, some 600 years after Buddha Siddhartha Gautama lived and died. From the end of the 1st ...

When it comes to Wat Pho, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, the namesake giant statue, and the surrounding chedis inlaid with kaleidoscopic mosaics, are some of the standard sights. What aren ...