It is also the site of the world's largest stone statue of Buddha. The Great Buddha at Leshan This colossal statue was carved on a cliff on Soaring to the Clouds Hill facing the three rivers.

The stones once belonged to a seven-headed serpent-like statue found with a Buddha in the temple. Screengrab from Apsara National Authority's Facebook page What are we learning about the past?

The University of Michigan Museum of Art is sending a ninth-century Buddha statue back to Nepal, ArtNews reported. The university has had the statute in its collection since 2016, but museum officials ...

The world’s tallest statue, which was unveiled last fall, stands at 597 ft. on an island in the Narmada River. It towers over the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the western Indian state of Gujarat ...

These images Professor Perera states led to the ideas pertaining to the turning out of colossal statues of the Buddha in Sri Lanka. The first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ...

In this episode of The India Today Culture Project, host Manish Adhikary takes you on a journey through the fascinating ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attended the celebrations of International Abhidhamma Divas and recognition of Pali ...

(Mainichi/Hirohiko Sakaguchi) SEOUL (Mainichi) -- A temple in South Korea that claimed ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from Japan will not oppose returning it, a source close to the temple has ...