PATNA, India (AFP) – Attackers who staged serial blasts at one of Buddhism's holiest sites this week also placed a bomb on a giant stone-carved idol of the Buddha that did not explode, police ...

There is a tradition that when the Buddha went to Heaven to preach to his late mother, the king so missed his presence that he had artisans create a replica in sandalwood. The statue was put in ...

"Heaven above and earth beneath, I am the Honoured One, the One who liberates all who suffer in the Three Realms." After the death of the Buddha, it became a tradition of bathe the statue of a ...