The craft involves carving intricate designs into blocks of fragrant sandalwood. Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted Japan's Prime Minister Funio Kishida, who is on a two-day visit to India, a ...
Botched repair works of a protected Buddha statue in south-west China have left the relic covered in bright, cartoonish colours, sparking ridicule and outrage. One web user joked that the stone ...
A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of a Buddha statue worth $1.5 million, Los Angeles police said Wednesday. The statue was recovered from a truck on Saturday and 44-year-old Justin ...
OVERSEAS visitors marvel at the grandeur of the Leshan Giant Buddha — the largest cliff-carved statue in China ...
New reconstructions show piercing eyes of men who lived 2,500 years ago in mysterious Indian civilization Kneeling Bull: A 5,000-year-old hybrid creature from Iran with a mysterious purpose Life-size ...
A year ago, Afghanistan's Taleban rulers destroyed two giant Buddha statues that for centuries had towered over the central Afghan town of Bamiyan. The Taleban deemed the statues an affront to Islam, ...
Why are certain government MPs ashamed that Article 9 of the Constitution states, ‘The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place, and accordingly it shall be the duty of the ...
The fact that the JVP/NPP government rapidly caved in to the Sinhala Buddhist supremacists over the statue is a warning that ...
At the heart of the fracas was a mundane operation by officials of the Coast Conservation Department (CCD) to demolish an illegally built beachfront café on land allegedly ‘owned’ by a well-known ...