A six-hour operation to salvage an ancient Buddha statue from Tha Chi Canal in Surat Thani’s Ban Na San district went viral on Sunday, as the salvaged item was actually an ordinary statue of a novice ...

A third shared, “We Thai people respect this place and will not step on the heads of these Buddha statues. This is a historical place of our religion. Disrespect and lack of knowledge of the ...

making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand. Along with the famous reclining Buddha, Wat Pho features a whopping 394 ...

Big Buddha is a giant statue of Buddha encased in Burmese alabaster that towers over Phuket from the peak of Mount Nagakerd. Construction on Big Buddha began in 2007, and Phuketians are proud of ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The Buddha statue was first identified by the online heritage activist group Lost Arts of Nepal in 2021 as ...

“I want to know if it’s wrong to have a Buddha tattoo on my arm because two days ago, someone messaged me saying that someone reported me and sent photos of me with this tattoo on my arm.” Srichala ...

Relic brought from China in December 2024, enshrined to commemorate His Majesty the King’s 6th-cycle or 72nd birthday The government on Saturday morning held a ceremony to transport a sacred relic of ...

The art of Gandhara evolved from the Greco-Buddhist interaction, and, as per a theory, gave the world the first anthropomorphic statue of the Buddha. It is said that “The Seated Buddha from Gandhara” ...