“It just seems to be a nexus where a lot of people connect,” said Daniel Choi, who teaches writing at Princeton and has been ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks at the Tianti Mountain, separated by a dam in the Huangyang River Reservoir in Wuwei, Gansu province. SHEN LONGQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY ...

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 ...

It took three weeks to bring down the statue, Abdul told me ... "He was blown up just above where we're standing now, next to the giant Buddha," he added, as I shifted nervously.

When he and Kazumi Minowa, 51, first took on the annual duty, “we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies being rolled and blown around by the wind ...

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 ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple ...

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 ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...