The first Buddhist temple in China was built here in Sichuan Province in the 1st ... The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on ...

but in a craftsman's workshop in rural China the US president-elect sits in divine contemplation. Cross-legged with his eyes half-closed in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version of ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent back to Hiroshima for the first time in 67 years to go ...