Buu Son Tu, a nearly 200-year-old temple in Soc Trang, stands out as Vietnam’s only pagoda where nearly 2,000 statues and ...

The body, or main part, of the pagoda, often used to enshrine a statue of Buddha, held to various styles of traditional Chinese architecture, unless the pagoda had a domed steeple. The base ...

Each of the other four sides has a false window. Inside the pagoda is a spiral staircase. Statues of Buddha in the niches built into the four walls of the pagoda were destroyed by imperialist ...

It's morning in Battersea Park in London, and I'm standing near the river, next to the Peace Pagoda. Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his way over ...

The redesign removed fencing surrounding the pagoda and added a path from the main gate to a terrace with views of the bronze Buddha statue and the Hagiwara Gate. Another path was added through ...

Le Thu Hien, a resident of Thu Duc City, shared her annual practice of visiting Van Phat Pagoda on this special day: "I visit ...