Cross-legged with his eyes half-closed in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version of America’s divisive ...

"The restoration of Buddha sculptures involves many steps ... great grandfather's name written inside the statue's head ― indicating that it had been once repaired in the Edo Era and again ...

Thus Indic philosophy was mixed with Hellenistic and Greco-Roman traditions of sculpture to produce some of the earliest attempts to depict the Gautama Buddha in the first century of the Common Era.

In this image, people sprinkle scented water over a Buddha statue. Throwing water is meant ... Reuters Hundreds of thousands of tourists head to Thailand every year, mainly to Bangkok and larger ...