The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent back to Hiroshima for the first time in 67 years to go ...

Around that time, Nishiyuki was moved by the beauty of Buddha statues when she visited Toji temple in Kyoto alone. She was especially impressed by the statue of Shakra devanam Indra in the 21 ...

The Temple of the ... its gold-plated "Reclining Buddha" sculpture. The Buddha measures 151 feet long and is 50 meters tall, making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand.

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...

Apart from the gold statue (housed on the top floor), the temple houses a Chinatown museum known as Yaowarat Chinatown Heritage Center or Wat Traimit Museum (second floor) and a Gold Buddha statue ...