FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 ...

It is also the site of the world's largest stone statue of Buddha. The Great Buddha at Leshan This colossal statue was carved on a cliff on Soaring to the Clouds Hill facing the three rivers.

It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

A giant open air Buddha statue sits calmly at the Thubten Choekhorthang in Gelephu Thromde. The Buddha statue faces south to India, overlooking the junction of four prominent roads, coming from ...

Monks chant sutras in Pāli language next to a flowered-decorated altar overlooking a giant Buddha statue in the yard of the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center in Franklin Township ...