A huge Buddha statue appeared by a road in New Jersey. Then the worshippers came - It is one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korea’s devastating wildfires have destroyed much of Gounsa Temple, but a giant Buddha statue miraculously withstood the flames.

in the coastal city of Vung Tau (Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province), Chon Khong Zen Monastery is home to a colossal gold-plated Buddha statue, attracting throngs of visitors and locals who come to admire and ...