The new sitting Buddha, including its its throne, is roughly about 24.7 meters (81 feet) high and weighs more than 5,000 tons, according to reports in state-run media.

The new sitting Buddha, including its its throne, is roughly about 24.7 meters (81 feet) high and weighs more than 5,000 tons, according to reports in state-run media.

Two of the four images are of Lord Buddha in the sitting meditation posture. They are 11 centimetres wide and 28cm tall. There are 23 small Buddha images depicted on each of the two images.

The Maravijaya Buddha Image weighs 1,782 tonnes and stands tall at 19.2m, and is accompanied by a 5.5m-tall throne that weighs another 3,510 tonnes.

In 2009, under a previous military government, then military ruler General Than Shwe consecrated the Uppatasanti Pagoda, a replica in Naypyitaw of the country’s famous Shwedagon pagoda, which sits in ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The biggest "sitting Buddha" in southeast Asia was consecrated in a elaborate Buddhist ceremonies at the Machimmaram Temple at Tumpat, a district in the peninsular Malaysia state of ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The military-controlled government of strife-torn Myanmar on Friday showed off a new giant statue of a sitting Buddha that is scheduled to be consecrated on Aug. 1, a powerful ...

The Maravijaya Buddha statue is said to be the world’s highest sitting marble Buddha image according to local media (Aung Shine Oo/AP/PA) ...

The new sitting Buddha, including its its throne, is roughly about 24.7 meters (81 feet) high and weighs more than 5,000 tons, according to reports in state-run media.