Buddhism was founded in the 5th century BCE by Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha. Born a prince, he renounced his royal life in search of deeper truth, ultimately attaining enlightenment.

One of the country's most decorated saddle bronc riders will be honoured with a bronze statue in his central west hometown.

Artworks produced at Nalanda had features of both Mathura and Sarnath with some local touch, Abhay K writes in ‘Nalanda: How It Changed the World’ ...

It showcases beautiful and historically important objects, precious stones and statues. (AP video by Fadlan Syam) A group of students examine the statue of Hindu deity Bhairava which is a part of ...

Police are searching for the vandals who removed the heads from two statues of Australian prime ministers and damaged 18 others in Ballarat early on Thursday morning. Twenty of the bronze busts, which ...

People can visit and see the Gilt-bronze Seated Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, a 50.5-centimeter-tall Buddhist statue from the 918-1392 Goryeo Dynasty, from Saturday until Buddha's Birthday that ...

A 14th-century bronze Buddha statue from Korea’s Goryeo-era, stolen by a South Korean theft ring from Kannon Temple on Japan’s Tsushima Island in 2012, will officially be returned to the temple on Jan ...

Lunar New Year is a festival beyond compare. Technically it’s a week—determined by the lunar calendar but always late January to mid-February—but for many, Chunjie (Spring Festival) is more ...

As the tallest Amitabha Buddha statue in the world, the Donglin Buddha is coated in 48 kilograms of gold, making it a radiant symbol of serenity and divine craftsmanship. This rare sight ...

A few years ago, I heard a Chinese anthropologist speaking about her work in Tibet ... discovered that votive statues in Buddhist temples were made of butter and promptly turned them into emergency ...