The 20-meter-tall Maitreya Buddha statue in the Mekong Delta has been recognized as one of the world's most impressive giant Buddha statues by British travel magazine Wanderlust.
Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...
located in the city of Monywa, Myanmar. The statue stands in the Po Khaung Taung range of hills and recently had a giant standing Buddha statue built on top of the Po Kuang Hills. Q: What is ...
Today, the statue in the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center has become a hub for interfaith efforts and a ...
A 73-meter Kannon statue overlooks the hot-spring resort city of Kaga in Ishikawa Prefecture ... the same height as the famous Great Buddha statue at Todaiji Temple in the ancient capital of ...
NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...
The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology officials announced.
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...
The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks ... An early spring visit, just an hour's drive from Wuwei's city center, brings visitors face-to-face with a magnificent reflection ...