Controversial Buddha statue to be removed

Hundreds of thousands of people in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province participate in the Water Splashing Festival which falls on April 11-13 this year. The festival is in celebration of the New Year in the Dai people's ...

The giant statue of the Vairocana Buddha in Fengxian Temple, with her benign smile and penetrating gaze, is a highlight of any trip to Longmen.

Publishing giant Penguin Group (USA) Inc. has sued the online library American Buddha, accusing the Oregon nonprofit company of posting to the Web the entire contents of books for which it holds exclusive

A poster of China's Leshan Giant Buddha is mistakenly placed a booth to promote Vietnam's tourism at a tourism event in Berlin A large photo of China's Leshan Giant Buddha, which is carved out of a cliff face in Sichuan Province, was exhibited at ...

In Lingshan, religion, leisure and ecology co-exist with harmony. It is a monastery. It is a theme park. It is the biggest tourist attraction in Jiangsu province in terms of revenue, testifying to its immense popularity. Unlike other Buddhist sites ...

Thief River Falls-based Digi-Key, a quiet giant with 2,600 employees and a global reach, was the sponsor of Saturday's Minnesota State Robotics Competition at Williams Arena. Nearly 800 students from across Minnesota and their team robots battled ...

Once arose a sheer poetry in stone amidst giant evergreens, it stood like a colossus Unfolding from the skies, it was shaped like a lotus. Plunging inside the forest, it spread like a melody. Once arose a sheer poetry in stone, amidst decorative ...

KATHMANDU, MAY 15 - As the Rana autocracy, which ruled the country for over a century till 1950, was totally against educating the general public, formal education has a short history in Nepal when compared to many other countries in the world. By ...

An opera written by composer Jonathan Harvey about Richard Wagner is to be partly performed in Pali, the 2,000-year-old language spoken by Buddha. Welsh National Opera (WNO) director David Pountney said the ancient Asian language was the most ...