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. The ...

The statue, made of bricks and measuring 2.4 by 2.5 metres, was found with parts of its head and limbs broken and separated. It was discovered by a fisherman in Bokeo province near the border with ...

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): A Buddha statue with a height of at least 2 meters has been excavated from a sandy area near the Mekong River in the northern Lao province of Bokeo. The statue unearthed Thursday ...

A man was killed after falling from a large Buddha statue and being impaled on another following a meth-fuelled rampage inside a temple, according to reports. The 49-year-old man assaulted a monk and ...

For ages, the human form has been the subject of artistic interpretation. By studying sculptures from throughout the centuries, archaeologists and historians have been able to piece together the ...

Myanmar’s military regime unveiled a large Maravijaya Buddha statue in a massive religious ceremony, which critics describe as an attempt to distract from the junta’s brutal leadership. The military ...

The erecting of large Buddha statues in sensitive areas of Sri Lanka where Tamil Hindus are in the majority is one of ten issues impacting the country's reconciliation efforts says a report by a ...