Statues stand as symbols of heritage, religious devotion, and historical memory. One can find a lot of statues around the ...

This statue of a bodhisattva (an individual who seeks enlightenment) is one of over 260 statues that was discovered buried near the cremated remains of what an inscription says is the Gautama ...

Another Mars conspiracy theory has been debunked. The Gautama Buddha statue seen in a photo taken on Mars is simply caused by the brain seeing familiar patterns or faces in random objects.

Buddhist devotees in Thailand and around the world now have a chance to visit and pray before a masterpiece replica of the ...

The cremated remains of the Buddha may have been discovered in a 1,000-year-old chest in China. More than 2,000 pieces of cremated bones were found in a box in Jingchuan County along with more than… ...

The stone statue, or stele, was discovered at the Mes Aynak site in a ruined monastery in 2010, but it wasn't until now that it was analyzed and described. Gérard Fussman, a professor at the ...

The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly submerged by ongoing floods in Southern China last week, reports Smithsonian Magazine ...

A traveling Buddha statue made of jade, standing nearly 8 feet tall, and weighing 4 tons on display at Minh Dang Quang monastery in Charlotte on May 10,2015, The monastery said it's expecting ...

Villagers discovered the statues and Buddha remains in December 2012 while they were repairing roads in the area. Archeologists excavated the remains, which they first detailed in a Chinese ...