As painting techniques became more sophisticated during this period, the Buddha statues began to feature increasingly realistic clothes and ornaments. Sakyamuni Buddha and two attendant Bodhissattvas ...

Legs folded, smiling serenely, several Buddha statues of cement and plaster sit unscathed amid collapsed brick walls and other tsunami debris. To many residents, the survival of the 10-foot-high ...

IN ALMOST every room of Susan Cohen’s Santa Monica house, there are Buddha statues: sitting, standing, reclining. Some are gray, others purple or pink. A 4-foot-tall copper-colored cast-resin Buddha ...

PARIS, June 10 (Reuters) - A rare Chinese Buddha statue, found in a French family home and part of a set thought to have been lost, is expected to fetch 1 million euros ($1.1 million) when it is ...

At least once in their lives, devout Buddhists in Laos strive to visit a very special temple inside a natural landmark, the Pak Ou Caves, directly on the mighty Mekong River, the lifeline of Southeast ...

The statue of Buddha that was up for sale at Christie’s auction house was, according to art experts, an early test: would recent controversy around objects once owned by two prominent Chicago ...

A 12th century Buddha statue stolen from India 57 years ago is to be returned to the country. The bronze effigy is one of 14 statues looted from a museum in Nalanda in the eastern part of India in ...