The 12th-century sculpture the museum returned to Nepal is called “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda” and is about 17.5 inches tall. The Art Institute said it was stolen from the ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

The Mahabodhi Mahavihara's serene and spiritually charged ambience makes it the perfect setting for individuals seeking solace and introspection. Under the sacred pipal or Bodhi tree, Gautama ...

On 3 March, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced the initiation of a voluntary repatriation to Nepal. The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha ...

While sifting through 29 statue fragments, they discovered something far larger than a fragment: a 3.75-foot-tall Buddha torso statue in the Bayon art style, dated to the 12 th or 13 th centuries ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy ... before filling them with statues and covering their walls in sacred art. He chose Tianti Mountain for this purpose.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by ...

An archaeological excavation team was shocked to find a fully intact Buddha torso statue from the ... uncommon representation in Khmer (Cambodian) art.” As fascinating as the find would have ...

While sifting through 29 statue fragments, they discovered something far larger than a fragment: a 3.75-foot-tall Buddha torso statue in the Bayon art style, dated to the 12 th or 13 th centuries ...

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 ...

In an initiative to repurpose agricultural waste, students of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) College of Community ...