A 74-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight in Oakland. It happened outside of a jewelry store. The thieves took her jade Buddha pendant, which not only has sentimental value, as ...

Associating jade jewelry with an older generation once made it hard for younger women to embrace these pieces, but thankfully, that attitude has changed. In part, that’s due to the recent wave ...

Thank God, he didn't kill me." She said in her purse were keys, cash, jewelry, ID and bank cards. But the item she cherished most is a jade Buddha, a good luck charm she's worn for decades since 1994.

Co Lam Pagoda unveiled the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace — a nearly 9-foot-high Buddha carved entirely out of one block of jade, that will be at the temple through Aug. 29.

The Jade Buddha project began in 2003, when Ian Green, chairman and director of The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia, learned of the giant jade boulder from a Buddhist jewelry ...

Langmann said Houston commissioned sculptor Lyle Sopel to carve the Buddha out of a 2,000 pound B.C. jade boulder. The sculpture took three years to complete, and the finished product is 780 pounds.