So, to quell the demon, a monk named Haitong committed to constructing a statue in the likeness of Buddha, in the year 713 B.C.E. Legend has it that Haitong spent 20 years collecting alms to ...

President-elect Donald Trump has been featured in some newly-viral Buddha-like Trump statues. The creator, a man from Xiamen ...

It appeared unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard just off a state highway in New Jersey. One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States rises 30 feet high from the woods in ...

Ichinichi-zoryubutsu refers to statues engraved by Buddhist carvers over the course of a day to pray for rain or the end to an epidemic. Buddhist monks burned incense and chanted mantras while a ...

where it was built a decade ago under the leadership of a Sri Lankan monk ordained in Theravada, one of the oldest forms of Buddhism. Today, the statue in the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and ...

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues ... of a Sri Lankan monk ordained in Theravada, one of the oldest forms of Buddhism.

It is home to Buddhist monks and nuns, but anyone is allowed to visit as long as they are respectful. The outside has interesting statues, and I like the way the building looks with all the ...

where it was built a decade ago under the leadership of a Sri Lankan monk ordained in Theravada, one of the oldest forms of Buddhism. His dream? Uniting people of all faiths. Today, the statue in ...