The Donglin Buddha statue is seen at the Donglin Temple in Xingzi County of Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, March 6, 2013. The bronze statue of Amitabha Buddha, which is 48 meters in ...

A woman prays in front of the Buddha statue in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi province, May 19, 2013. [Photo by Xi Yan/Asianewsphoto] The construction of the world's tallest statue of Amitabha ...

These figurines are 200 years older previous Buddha statues found in China and were fashioned in ... which include Aksobhya, Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi, Ratnasaṃbhava, and Vairocana.

Local officials on the mainland are drawing inspiration from Buddha, but perhaps not in a way he might have intended. Tourism bureaus and developers are racing to build ever-higher statues of ...

It spread to China where there was a strong cult of ... is the consequence of a person achieving genuine faith in Amitabha Buddha and his vow to save all beings who trusted in him.

The video shows clouds flowing like a river around the 48-meter-tall golden Amitabha Buddha, alternately revealing and concealing its majestic form. The scene resembles a celestial vision straight ...

The Chinese legends suggest that the noble future Maitreya Buddha will manifest in China – in the land of Amitabha Buddha or in the Western Pure Land – Sukhavati as the Chinese describe.

For decades, a handheld mirror in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s collection of East Asian art was thought to be a simple looking glass made of bronze, with an invocation of the Amitābha Buddha ...