The only universal emotion common to man and beast is fear of death. Except for rare individuals like Oscar Wilde who always ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- For centuries they have gazed benevolently from their mountain homes as wars raged across the Afghan plains. But now the two massive Buddha statues could themselves become ...

24 years ago, in March 2001, the Taliban destroyed the Buddha statues of Bamiyan using explosives and heavy artillery. The Salsal (55m) and Shahmama (38m) statues had stood along the Silk Road for ...

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

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

LHASA -- Under the guidance of Buddhist groups, the succession of living Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism is carried out in accordance with religious rituals and historical conventions, said a white ...

LHASA, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Under the guidance of Buddhist groups, the succession of living Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism is carried out in accordance with religious rituals and historical ...

making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand. Along with the famous reclining Buddha, Wat Pho features a whopping 394 ...

A Queens woman tossed a blood-red liquid on a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt during an anti-Israel protest outside a Long Island legislative building over the weekend, cops and ...