While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue ... sculptures aplenty (many of them with bodies ...

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However, the institute’s announcement failed to mention the statue had once ...

An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was ... and those climate extremes are thought by many archaeologists and historians to have influenced kings to lead deeply religious ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks ... The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like many in the region, including the famed Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, is due ...

which houses the second jade buddha statue, carved from a single piece of white jade. It's also worth noting that the temple is one of Shanghai's few active Buddhist monasteries, so many monks ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the atomic bombing to provide emotional support for survivors, is finally coming home after disappearing for ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ... facing officials is that many of the cultural heritage ...