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 addition of other temples turned the site into one of Buddhism's holiest sites. Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved ...

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 restoration work "brings people closer to these relics, allowing more to revisit history and rediscover the original appearance ... grand caves filled with Buddha statues, embossed artworks ...

Explore the deep history behind a brass Buddha statue gifted by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Prime Minister of Laos, and what it reveals about the intersection of art, faith, and ...

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 ...

A giant statue of Buddha in China has had its toes dampened by floodwater for the first time since the 1940s. The 71m-tall statue, a Unesco heritage site, was carved out of a rockface in Sichuan ...

The seated Buddha statue, a Nagasaki Prefecture-designated ... is expected to arrive around the following week. (Japanese original by Motomi Kusakabe, Seoul Bureau) ...