Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like many in the region, including the famed Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, is due ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks at ... A serene smile graces his face as he rests his left hand on his knee and raises his right palm outward in a gesture said ...

Ding Hao, a local tour guide with 13 years of experience, told the Global Times that no matter how many times he has seen it, ...

Solo travel is having a moment. For me—a backpacker at heart, with a penchant for arty, boutique hotels—that moment began around 20 years ago when I embarked on my first solo sojourn to Central ...

At the decorator showcase, 30 designers let their creativity take flight, reimagining an empty 1928 mansion as a glamorous ...

The merger of Hung Yen and Thai Binh will create a unique Vietnamese province with no mountains but a rich tapestry of ...

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later write, “although these are extremely serious problems, but that such issues ...

On the other hand, the police do maintain a presence ... had his own face carved onto statues of the Buddha inside temples, and institutionalized the link between Buddhist merit and political ...

PHNOM PENH (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha ... displaying carved jewelry and ...

Left, a sculpture depicting Man Pa ... On each platform sits a Buddha in the classic Bhumisparsha mudra position. His right hand reaches over his right knee toward the ground—a gesture said ...