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 ...

Buddhist devotees in Thailand and around the world now have a chance to visit and pray before a masterpiece replica of the Fasting Buddha, considered to be one of the “most profound and powerful ...

Indian mythologist and writer Devdutt Pattanaik has claimed that a Hanuman statue built in Texas is based on the Thai Buddha's gesture of "do not fight.” Indian mythologist and writer Devdutt ...

PRACHUP KIRI KHAN: A Buddha sculpture and several documents were retrieved from the sunken HTMS Sukhothai on Saturday, the third day of the joint salvage operation with the United States' Navy. R Adm ...

An Australian citizen has returned nine wooden Buddha statues to Thailand after more than a century in his family’s possession. The return of the diminutive carved statues, each of which stands around ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gifted the brass statue of Sarnath Buddha in Dhyan Mudra to Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and a brocade silk shawl from Uttar ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai temple building a 69-metre-tall (230 ft) Buddha statue that will be visible across Bangkok said construction was nearly complete but its opening may be pushed back to 2022 ...