China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming ...

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 ...

A 600-year-old Buddha statue has been discovered in a reservoir in east China’s Jiangxi Province after water levels fell during renovation work. A local villager first spotted the head of the Buddha ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statues of the Buddha unearthed in central China are leading to new interpretations of the early history of Buddhism in the country. While excavating a late Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25–220) family ...