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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

No cameras or mobile phones were allowed in the inner sanctum of the Temple of the Tooth during a rare exposition, which started on Friday in the central town of Kandy after a gap of 16 years.

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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 ...