Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

Acting IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya said preliminary investigations are underway to determine when the image was captured. He ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers ...

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 ...

Video. Locals, tourists and others visited the Wat Arun temple in the capital Bangkok to pour water on Buddha images in an ...

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 ...

I hardly need to describe the figure any further, because the seated Buddha is one of the most familiar and most enduring images in world religion. Today you can find statues of the Buddha ...