Buddhism started in India over 2,500 years ... It is famous for its gold sculpture of the Buddha. The pose of the statue celebrates the moment that the Buddha achieved enlightenment.

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the ... in the name of the Buddha, and wore dark brown ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues in a long procession toward the site revered as Siddhartha ...

They unearthed the relics of a breathtaking piece of Buddhist heritage — an intact, massive Buddha head ... and female divinities associated with Buddhism, further reinforcing the site ...

The discovery of 2-metre-long Buddha heads with intact features in Ratnagiri establishes that Buddhism was the predominant religion in the early medieval period Ratnagiri, Udaigiri and Lalitgiri ...