The Giant Buddha Temple (Dafo Temple) in Zhangye city, about 600 kilometers west of Gansu's provincial capital Lanzhou, is named after a statue worshiped inside. The temple, also known as "Wofo Temple ...

A new member is joining A Nan Buddhist Temple, but may not get there in time for the welcoming party. At 32-feet-tall, the Birth Buddha statue will join three other similar-sized statues in the ...

A pure jade Buddha statue sat eminently on its alabaster altar in the garden of a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in north Aurora — the latest stop on the sacred statue’s ongoing, five-year world tour. At ...

Wearing a serene granite smile, the Buddha looks down on his Gainesville followers from atop a 7-foot-tall globe adorned with dragons and flowers. A message is written in English along the globe’s ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Lunar New Year arrived on Saturday, marking the beginning of the lunar calendar and the start of the Year of the Rat 2020. This weekend, one of Louisville’s Vietnamese ...

Rosemead, Los Angeles County-- Although he'd been a practicing Buddhist for 20 years, until 10 months ago Dharma Master YongHua hadn't even seen so much as one of the sacred relics known as shariras ...

The temple is one of the most prominent temples in India. The significant events that occurred on its timeline are as under: 531 BC – Buddha attained the perfect state of enlightenment while being ...

For about a week, the nuns and community members who pray at Van Hanh Temple had been preparing for Sunday’s Buddha birthday celebration. They weeded the garden, put up a big tent and cooked large ...

A Buddhist temple that is home to a national representative Buddha in Shandan, Northwest China's Gansu Province, caught on fire Monday morning. No one was injured in the fire, but the wooden ...

The giant Buddha statue of Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen temple is seen at the end of an avenue in Bangkok, Thailand, June 9, 2021. Reuters BANGKOK, June 21 – A Thai temple building a 230-foot Buddha ...