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 ...

Certain characteristics are common to images of Buddha: the Victoria & Albert Museum lists 32 'lakshanas' or special bodily features with symbolic meanings. These go beyond physical attributes ...

Buddha Purnima or Buddha's birthday is observed on the Tithi of Shukla Paksha Purnima (full moon day) in the month of Vaisakh of the traditional Hindu calendar that falls during the months of ...

An archaeological excavation team was shocked to find a fully intact Buddha torso statue from the 12 th or 13 th century ...