The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji ... meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200.

For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its ...

Great Buddha of Kamakura: A Popular Buddha Statue in Japan Japan is home to many revered Buddhist statues, and one of the most popular and celebrated among them is the Great Buddha of Kamakura.

Kamakura Prefecture: the Great Buddha ('Daibutsu') is one of Japan's most celebrated Buddhist figures. The 40-foot bronze statue, weighing 93 tons, is located in the Kōtoku-in Temple, and was ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at ...

Simone Dinoia via Unsplash The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology ...

The city of Kamakura is one of Japan ... Throughout it all, the great Buddha remained standing. Take a good long look at the statue during your visit, but don't bother going inside the temple ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head ...