A pair of newly-discovered 2,200 year-old copper Buddhas statues found in China are the oldest of their kind to be discovered in the country The small figurines were part of a trove of artifacts found ...

The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C.

Staff unpacks the Buddha statue head in Hebei Museum, Shijiaguang, Hebei province, March 29, 2016. The head statue was brought back to the museum on Tuesday after it was stolen 20 years ago.

The construction of the Shakyamuni Buddha statue, which is expected to be the tallest of its kind in the world, commenced in the southern province of An Giang on March 5. The construction of the ...

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar Museum has lent a monumental Buddha statue to the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, for exhibition for three and a half months. The sculpture ‘Buddha Shakyamuni’, which is ...

Visitors walk along the feet of the world's largest reclining Buddha stone statue in Yiyang county of East China's Jiangxi province, March 28, 2015. [Photo/SIPA] A reclining Buddha, a frequent theme ...

Buddha's birthday is an important holiday in many Asian countries, but particular customs vary across the map. On Buddha's birthday, Buddhists across the world commemorate the birth, enlightenment and ...