At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...

Jayasuriya completed his preparatory and secondary education at Ananda College, Colombo. The characteristic Buddhist school tone at Ananda helped mould his character as a patriotic young man devoted ...

Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, someone grabbed the fire extinguisher at Sung Tak Buddhist Temple on Pike Street, and whacked the large statue gracing the front, then smashed a smaller statue to pieces.

Listen to Story A video showed a tourist climbing Buddhist statue in Thailand She was seen plucking ... outrage after a tourist was spotted climbing a Buddhist statue at a temple in Thailand to pluck ...

Special Arrangement. When 24-year-old Vishal Kadam visited the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya last January, he was keen to see the spot where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment.

The remarkable find, made in February at Ta Prohm temple, adds another layer of intrigue to the already fascinating history of the site. The torso, standing 1.16 metres tall, is thought to date ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by ...

(Apsara National Authority via AP) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue ...

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