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.

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin Township, near Princeton. It was built a decade ago under the leadership of a Sri Lankan ...

It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

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 ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk ... who abandoned his royal life to become a wandering ascetic, wanting to comprehend and therefore to overcome the ...

The nine Korean smugglers who took the statue out of Japan also stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk ... who abandoned his royal life to become a wandering ascetic, wanting to comprehend and therefore to overcome the ...

Daejeon, South Korea, Jan. 24 (Jiji Press)--A ceremony to return a stolen Buddha statue to a Japanese temple on Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, was held in the central South Korea city of ...