The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

Thailand’s Minister of Culture, Sudawan Wangsuphakitkosol, has ordered urgent restoration work on the iconic Reclining Buddha ...

Buddhist temples vary in style and design, but they usually feature a main hall, a Buddha statue and space to meditate.

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

From around the globe, these 15 statues are the tallest as of 2025… Note: the heights listed are based on the statue’s ...

What makes this statue even more unique is that tourists can enter it and climb to the top, even though not all areas are ...

Olivier Rioux holds the Guinness World Record for world's tallest male teenager. A University of Florida basketball player whose height makes him a Guinness World Record holder needed just his ...

The pagoda itself functions as a temple, making it a “vertical monastery” — or, as its name suggests, “The Palace of Buddha.” ...

Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin ...