According to the temple records called the Tōdaiji yōroku, casting of the statue began in 749 and construction of the Daibutsuden Great Buddha Hall was completed in 751. A grand ceremony to ...

a monk named Haitong committed to constructing a statue in the likeness of Buddha, in the year 713 B.C.E. Legend has it that Haitong spent 20 years collecting alms to construct the temple.

the most revered of all Kamakura period Buddhist sculptors. Records from 1795 confirm that the two statues were originally displayed in the temple as a pair. Unkei was still alive when this ...

A temple in Chiang Mai has sparked controversy after he announcing it had resumed construction of the world’s largest statue ...

A South Korean temple that claimed the ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple will return the statue to the original owner next spring, it has been learned. Buseoksa Temple in ...

Armenian Indian archaeologist and photographer JD Beglar reported to the Archaeological Survey of India having seen as many ...

The Temple of the Reclining Buddha ... making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand. Along with the famous reclining ...

One of the city's most popular attractions, the Jade Buddha Temple impresses visitors with its legion of statues. The temple was originally built to house two jade statues brought in from Burma.

A temple in South Korea says it will return a Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple after holding a memorial service for it next year. The statue has been designated a tangible cultural ...