A third, much larger statue - a 305-metre-long sleeping Buddha - may still be buried nearby. Inspired by the writings of a Chinese pilgrim almost 1400 years ago, Afghanistan's foremost ...

Blessed ambience We stood in the central chamber or the 100 Dragons Hall of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum in Singapore. Hundreds of Buddha statues in different postures looked down upon ...

The chief archaeologist, professor Zemaryali Tarzi, has spent years searching there for a 300-meter-long sleeping Buddha described in the journal of Xuanzang, a Chinese pilgrim who traveled to ...

WHEN Hazara University’s Abdul Hameed showed me the Sleeping Buddha, I was underwhelmed. “These are the feet,” he said pointing to what looked like a jagged brick wall. “And here are the f ...