It’s a painted statue of the Bodhisattva Maitreya ... a 300-mile journey. And though the temple complex was Buddhist, the artists themselves may have been Hindus, Jains or Muslims.

Lin Ming-teh notes that besides carrying on traditions, craftsmanship in Lukang has been raised to the level of art | ...

Postage stamps have been issued in Xu’s honor and statues erected in the towns he ... mountains,” Xu wrote of his travel companion, the Buddhist monk Jingwen, whose tomb lies on Chicken ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

People have doused water on Buddhist statues at temples across Thailand ... Locals, tourists and others visited the Wat Arun temple in the capital Bangkok to pour water on Buddha images in an ...

Locals, tourists and others visited the Wat Arun temple in the capital Bangkok to pour water on Buddha images in an act that ...

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On the streets of Bangkok, tuk-tuks weave their way through chaotic traffic, food stalls on the footpath are busy serving ...

A TOTAL of 35 statues from Fujian, China, will be installed at the Hean Boo Thean Temple in Weld Quay, Penang, to complement the makeover of the Taoist floating temple, The statues of two generals ...

More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, many Chinese citizens continue to remember the events of the pandemic and to pay tribute to Dr ...