CHENGDU, 11 January (BelTA - Xinhua). - The world's largest stone Buddha statue, the Giant Buddha of Leshan, needs a repair, again. Less than three years after the completion of the latest large ...

Leshan – Home of World’s Largest Stone Buddha Statue The city of Leshan, 167 kilometers from Chengdu, is located at the confluence of three rivers – the Minjaing, Qingyijiang, and Dadu.

BRAINTREE – Come October, passersby on Quincy Avenue and visitors to the Samantabhadra Buddhist Center in Braintree will see a striking display – a 9-foot, 4-ton jade statue of the Buddha.

(RNS) For years, museums ignored the religious teachings that form a large part of their art collections. Thanks to technology like 3-D scanning, they are beginning to explore it once more.

From left, Buddhist statues in Afghanistan: a statue from a Buddhist monastery circa A.D. 700, an undated stone carving of the Dipankara Buddha, a stucco bust of Buddha from the first to second ...

A statue of a serpent-like deity was found buried in an ancient temple in Cambodia, could be reconstructed with Buddha statue in temple ...

A statue of a serpent-like deity was found buried in an ancient temple in Cambodia, could be reconstructed with Buddha statue in temple ... large sections of carved stone were uncovered, ...

Tourists view the statue of the Leshan Giant Buddha in Leshan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Chaoqun) The world's largest stone Buddha statue, the Giant ...