Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks at the Tianti Mountain, separated by a dam in the Huangyang River Reservoir in Wuwei, Gansu province. SHEN LONGQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY ...

As you cross into Ladakh, Mulbekh Monastery welcomes you with a giant 9-meter-tall Maitreya Buddha carved into a cliff face ... and a 49-foot-tall Buddha statue, Thiksey is the Ladakhi version ...

Heritage officials said some of the site’s national treasures, including an eighth-century stone Buddha statue, were removed before the flames ... The wildfires have carved a trail of devastation ...

But now the two massive Buddha statues could themselves become casualties. The statues, carved into the sides of the mountains bordering the central province of Bamiyan during the second and third ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand. Along with the famous reclining Buddha, Wat Pho features a whopping 394 ...

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...