With construction completed on Oct. 5, 2015, the Buddha statue in Drago had been built with contributions of around 40 million yuan (U.S. $6.3 million) by local Tibetans and was designed to ...

Work on the statue, which is as tall as a 20-story building, started in 2017 and should be completed this year, but due to the coronavirus pandemic the official opening may be pushed back to 2022 ...

A 20-meter-tall reinforced concrete statue of Maitreya Buddha at Vinh Trang Pagoda (Tien Giang Province) was named among the world’s most impressive giant Buddha statues by the UK-based Wanderlust ...

The nearly 15-foot-tall Buddha statue started getting its new paintjob over the last week. It was almost entirely repainted Tuesday except for its still-red head. The Buddha's history in Fort Myers ...

Seventeen national treasures, including the ancient Dong Duong Buddha statue and the oldest wooden Buddha figures in Southeast Asia, are now on display at the HCM City Museum of History.

While the Lion City is widely known for its architecture, pop culture, and world-class cuisine, there's a quieter, more ...

An archaeological excavation team was shocked to find a fully intact Buddha torso statue from the 12 th or 13 th century measuring 3.75 feet tall. The torso find at a Cambodian temple matches a ...

Thein Sein, the general-turned-president who headed a semi-democratic military-backed government, had a 9.7-meter-tall (32-foot-tall) standing marble Buddha statue built in Naypyitaw in 2015.

Carved into a cliff in Leshan, Sichuan Province, overlooking the point where three main rivers converge, the 71-meter (234-feet) tall Buddha statue is more than 1,200 years old.