BANGKOK (AP) — More than 2,000 people took part Wednesday in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha lent by China to a shrine in the Thai capital Bangkok to honor the birthday of King Maha ...

Beijing — Heavy rainfall has swelled China's Yangtze River, threatening UNESCO World Heritage Sites and forcing officials to reassure nervous citizens that the world's largest hydroelectric dam isn't ...

STORY: Video shared on social media showed the statue at the Shandan Great Buddha Temple of Gansu province’s Shandan County burning in the early hours of Monday. After the fire was extinguished, the ...

A fire consumed a giant Buddha statue at a major temple in northwest China, state media reported. Video shared on social media showed the statue at the Shandan Great Buddha Temple burning in the early ...

The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly submerged by ongoing floods in Southern China last week, reports Smithsonian Magazine. A ...

Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick’s most recent book, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in twenty-first century China, striving to ...

Is there such a thing as too many Buddhas? China may be about to find out. For the past few decades, the country has been in the midst of a Buddha-building craze. Just last year, for example, it was ...

A 600-year-old Buddha statue has been discovered in a reservoir in east China’s Jiangxi Province after water levels fell during renovation work. A local villager first spotted the head of the Buddha ...

Floods in southern China have caused water from the Yangtze River to reach the toes of a famous gigantic statue of the Buddha — reportedly for the first time in decades. Flooding has engulfed much of ...