The Spring Temple Buddha, the second tallest statue in the world, stands at 153 metres (502 feet) in Fodushan Scenic Area, featuring a temple, monastery, and Buddhist Museum museum, following its ...

Explore the historical and cultural significance of the world's tallest statues, such as India's Statue of Unity, China's Spring Temple Buddha, and Myanmar's Laykyun Sekkya.

The statue was unveiled on Oct. 31, 2018 and replaced the Spring Temple Buddha in Pingdingshan, China, which stands approximately 420 feet as the tallest statue.

The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology officials announced.

In stark contrast to the poverty of the surrounding countryside, the Spring Temple Buddha, which took 11 years to complete, stands more than 208 meters tall, is plated with 108 kilograms of gold, and ...

Seoul, Dec. 24 (Jiji Press)--A South Korean temple that claimed the ownership of a Buddha statute stolen from a Japanese temple will return the statue to the original owner next spring, it was ...

Tsushima, Nagasaki Pref. – A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists in Thailand uncovered 33 ancient gold, silver, and bronze treasures beneath a 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha statue.

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue.They then brought their find—which has been dated to ...

This statue snatched the title of the world's biggest from the Spring Temple Buddha in Pingdingshan, ... A staggering 3,500 workers spent four years building the statue, ...

Seoul – A South Korean temple that claimed the ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple will return the statue to the original owner next spring, it has been learned.