The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined ... 67 years to go on public display in July. It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have been ...

Nong Phai district in Phetchabun province is home to the revered wooden statue, Luang Pho Ham Chon, which attracts visitors and fortune seekers daily. The woman, known as Aed, surname withheld, shared ...

President-elect Donald Trump has been featured in some newly-viral Buddha-like Trump statues. The creator, a man from Xiamen in China, is making bank. Xiamen, China - Artist Hong Jinshi has gone viral ...

Not many Indian tourists are aware that Thailand boasts of one of the largest open-air museums in the world. It lies just an ...

is a Buddhist temple complex which is most known for its gold-plated "Reclining Buddha" sculpture. The Buddha measures 151 feet long and is 50 meters tall, making it the largest reclining Buddha ...

Hong initially conceived the Trump-Buddha statues in 2021 as a humorous project, inspired by one of Trump’s Chinese nicknames, “King of Knowing Everything.” The juxtaposition of Trump’s signature ...

The Sukhothai Relics Map is hidden in a temple on the northern side of Voss' Camp. Stopping in at the camp to pick up the ...

Buu Son Tu, a nearly 200-year-old temple in Soc Trang, stands out as Vietnam’s only pagoda where nearly 2,000 statues and ...

Ashes believed to belong to Buddha were paraded through the streets in India. The sacred relics of Lord Buddha and his two disciples, Shariputra and Mahamoglan, were honoured in a grand procession in ...

The viral statues show Trump sitting with his eyes closed. Wearing a monk-like robe, he has his legs crossed and is meditating in a way that is reminiscent of the Buddha. Carved in rural China ...

Cross-legged with his eyes half-closed in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version of America’s divisive leader-in-waiting is the work of designer and sculptor Hong Jinshi This photo taken on ...

Big Buddha is a giant statue of Buddha encased in Burmese alabaster that towers over Phuket from the peak of Mount Nagakerd. Construction on Big Buddha began in 2007, and Phuketians are proud of ...