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 ...

FRANKLIN (Somerset) - The New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center, known for its large Buddha statue, was recently granted approval for an expansion to its facility on Route 27. The temple ...

The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly submerged by ongoing floods in Southern China last week, reports Smithsonian Magazine. A ...

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 ...

Buddhism has existed on the Korean Peninsula, at least officially, since 372. And during this time, a countless amount of images of various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have been produced. These images ...

Planning your next adventure? These eight towering statues from around the world combine history, culture and stunning ...