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Choi Eung-chon, third from right, head of the Korea Heritage Service, gestures toward the Stupa of Master Jeokin at Taean Temple in Gokseong, South Jeolla Province, Tuesday. The stone stupa ...

Chatra (Itkhori), June 13: For decades, Hindu devotees thronging the Maa Bhadrakali Temple in Itkhori may actually have been offering prayers to a Buddha stupa. A five-feet high structure situated at ...

A Buddhist stupa that stood for more than 100 years has collapsed in Thailand. The 123-year-old Phra That Non Tan temple crumbled in Nakhon Phanom province on Sunday, leaving it beyond repair. The ...

The Fine Arts Department and the assistant abbot of the Temple of Dawn or Wat Arun deny claims the latest restoration of its iconic stupas have diminished the traditional beauty of the structures.

Excavated in 1867, Parinirvana Stupa is huge stupa made of brick. The stupa has Brahmi inscription on its walls and a reclining Nirvana statue of Buddha inside it. The statue is placed on a brick ...

Lanterns are an important integral element of the Vesak Poya festival (Full Moon in May), which is celebrated to mark three important events in the life of Buddha – birth, enlightenment and death.

The stupa is situated in Wanshou Temple at the head of Wenchang Bridge on Minzhu Road in Guilin. The stupa was constructed in the Tang Dynasty and used to be a seven-storey brick structure. It ...

The 730-year-old Baita Temple (White Stupa Temple) in downtown Beijing will open to the public from October 1 after massive renovations. The facelift started in 1997 and cost more than 84 million yuan ...

Excavated in 1867, Parinirvana Stupa is huge stupa made of brick. The stupa has Brahmi inscription on its walls and a reclining Nirvana statue of Buddha inside it. The statue is placed on a brick ...