Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

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

Torso of Buddha statue unearthed at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia. TA PROHM, CAMBODIA—Archaeologists discovered the torso of a ...

The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a ... The body was in a Bayon style of art and was ...

Carved out of a cliff facing the river, it stands at an impressive height of 233 feet, making it the largest stone Buddha statue in the world. The statue’s hands alone are 11 feet long ...

Locating Buddha's Eyeballs in the Fright Cliff area of the Yellow Wind Ridge ... Continue past the shrine with the crouching statue and then turn left to spot a torch-lit altar with a big statue ...

A cliff-face cavity is all that remains of ... in the rock face mark the sites where two huge sixth-century statues of the Buddha, destroyed a decade ago by the Taliban, stood for 1,500 years.

according to Chinese media A self-made Chinese businessman is aiming to have 10,000 Buddha statues carved using dead jujube trees. Over 9,200 handcrafted statues are now put on display in his ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue ... pieces,” Simon said. The statue’s torso was crafted with ...

According to archaeologists, the head of the same statue was dug up in 1927 and is now in Cambodia's National museum in the capital Phnom Penh. The two parts may be reattached for display. View on eur ...

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 ...