BANGKOK (AP) — More than 2,000 people took part Wednesday in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha lent by China to a shrine in the Thai capital Bangkok to honor the birthday of King Maha ...

Is there such a thing as too many Buddhas? China may be about to find out. For the past few decades, the country has been in the midst of a Buddha-building craze. Just last year, for example, it was ...

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Beijing — Heavy rainfall has swelled China's Yangtze River, threatening UNESCO World Heritage Sites and forcing officials to reassure nervous citizens that the world's largest hydroelectric dam isn't ...

STORY: Video shared on social media showed the statue at the Shandan Great Buddha Temple of Gansu province’s Shandan County burning in the early hours of Monday. After the fire was extinguished, the ...

Two mates who unearthed a centuries-old rare Buddha statue in Western Australia's remote Shark Bay region are calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to diplomatically return the Ming Dynasty ...

In a dimly lit workshop in eastern China, craftsman Zhang measured and shaped a block of wood into a foot as dozens of half-completed life-sized Buddha statues looked on silently. Zhang is one of a ...

China claims a Buddha statue, which caused a sensation when a mummified monk was discovered inside it, was stolen from Fujian Province two decades ago. It was recently the centerpiece of an ongoing ...