With a procession of monks and nuns, and chants and prayers, a couple hundred people gathered on the grounds of the Co Lam Pagoda for the unveiling Thursday of a most striking Buddha statue: one ...

MIAMI, April 9 (UPI) -- A 4 1/2-ton, seven-foot-high jade statue of the Buddha, on a peace-promoting tour from Thailand, will be in South Florida, authorities say. Known as the Jade Buddha for ...

an 18-ton boulder of Nephrite jade was discovered in Canada. A Buddhist from Australia named Ian Green bought the boulder in 2003 and sent it to Thailand to be sculpted in the shape of Buddha at ...

The statue of Jade Buddha for Universal Peace will be on display at Phu Lien Pagoda in northern Thai Nguyen province this month, on the celebration of the Buddist Vu Lan festival. The statue of Jade ...