Let me begin today by sharing a well-known story with you. “In the mid 50’s, a monastery was to be relocated to make room for a new highway. The monks arranged for a crane to come and move a 10- foot ...

A local young man creates a clay statue in a workshop in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Huangnan, Qinghai Province, northwest China, Oct. 12, 2019. (Xinhua/Pema Yangtso) Kelsang Tsering, a ...

This statue of Buddha, measuring 2.78 meters (9.1 feet) in height, is enshrined in Muryangsujeon Hall in Buseok Temple, which is located in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang. Called a sojo bulsang, this ...

XINING - For Tibetan craftsman Kelsang Tsering, the highlight of his daily work is bringing clay Buddha figurines, mostly seen in monasteries, to common households. From clay selection and sculpting ...

For centuries, an enormous clay statue of the Buddha sat in Wat Traimit, a temple in Thailand. Its origins unknown, it had become something of a fixture. The temple monks would tend the statue, fixing ...

A 100-ft statue of Lord Buddha, which the modeller claims is the largest in the country, is being made in the city for installation at a temple in Bodh Gaya next year. The fibreglass statue of Buddha ...

If you’ve been following our recent travel reports from Nara, you’ll know that there’s a set of four sites known as the Four Great Temples of Yamato (Yamato being the historical name for the region).

A clay modeller in Kolkata is working on a 100 feet tall statue of Lord Buddha, which he claims is the largest in the country. Modeller Mintu Pal is making the statue so for its installation at a ...

Let me begin today by sharing a well-known story with you. “In the mid ‘50s, a monastery was to be relocated to make room for a new highway. The monks arranged for a crane to come and move a 10 feet ...

For centuries, an enormous clay statue of the Buddha sat in Wat Traimit, a temple in Thailand. Its origins unknown, it had become something of a fixture. The temple monks would tend the statue, fixing ...