It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

Vietnam's Maitreya Bodhisattva Statue, located on Ba Den Mountain, showcases the method of stone assembly for the first time, a technique similar to Egyptian pyramids. Tourists can visit Sichuan ...

A wood and shell ancestral statue from Indonesia, a solid gold Buddha statue from Java and a ceremonial cloth from Sulawesi will soon be on display at the Yale University Art Gallery. The gallery ...

Cambodian workmen have unearthed 27 solid-gold Buddha statuettes, buried for hundreds of years beneath the foundations of a ruined pagoda hidden deep in the jungle, officials said. The statues, about ...