A giant statue of Buddha in China has had its toes dampened by floodwater for the first time since the 1940s. The 71m-tall statue, a Unesco heritage site, was carved out of a rockface in Sichuan ...

Monuments woman' Katherine Tsiang's Buddhist statue digital restorations have revived interest in lost dynasties and ...

People from a village in southwest China damaged a set of 1,400-year-old Buddha statues by painting them with bright colours. They did it to "redeem a wish to the god," the officials said.

It is nearly twice as tall as New York's Statue of Liberty. And it has surpassed the height of the Spring Temple Buddha in China which, at 128m, was previously the tallest in the world.

China. It measures 78 meters (256 feet) tall. The Peter the Great Statue: It is 98-metre-high (322 ft) monument located in central Moscow, Russia. The Ushiku Great Buddha: It is located in Ushiku ...