It is also the site of the world's largest stone statue of Buddha. The Great Buddha at Leshan This colossal statue was carved on a cliff on Soaring to the Clouds Hill facing the three rivers.

During work to locate loose stones at the royal palace of Angkor Thom, archaeologists found 12 sandstone guardian statues.

The stone also resonates with the military that has ruled Myanmar for much of its history since independence from Britain in ...

A Thai temple in Edinburgh has been given a new stone Buddha statue after its last one was stolen. The Dhammapadipa site in Slateford Road was targeted by thieves in September 2016 and the statue ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk ... a rock that contains fragments of crystal which make the stone glint and gleam in the light. The Buddha's hands ...

A giant mythical serpent called Phaya Naga statue sits in the middle of a pond at a temple in Thailand. Aerial footage shows the stone structure of a seven-headed snake behind a praying Buddha that ...

The pedestal is carved with fine designs and niches for Buddhist statues ... on the first storey of the Sakya Buddha Pagoda is a wide, eight-tiered, stone pent roof that is also supported by ...

A stone Buddha head taken from Cave 8 of the ... can see in the grottoes that in just over 100 years, the style of Buddha statues transformed from delicate and refined to robust and rounded ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk ... a rock that contains fragments of crystal which make the stone glint and gleam in the light. The Buddha's hands ...