and Anawrahta finally decided to bring them over into Buddhism. The figures of the thirty-six lords were taken from their shrines, and placed in the king's great pagoda, in an attitude of worship ...

A Chinese term for pagoda did not exist until the first century. The reason is that this new form of architecture was introduced to China only when Buddhism spread to the country. The origin of ...

The base, for burying Buddhist relics, usually took the form of an underground chamber or underground hole attached to a tomb in ancient China. This kind of pagoda structure was recorded in ...

A large snake was found coiled on top of a gold pagoda at a Buddhist temple in Myanmar. The 15ft serpent was spotted by locals wrapped around the crown of the religious building in Kachin's Shwe ...

The pagoda Hue Nghiem in HCM City holds a thrilling legend about a wealthy woman who was reborn as a princess after her death ...

Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa in Myanmar. It houses over 700 slabs inscribed with the Tripitaka. Each slab is 1.5 m tall and together they form what some people think may be the world’s ...

Legend has it that the pagoda was inspired by a dream in which the emperor saw the Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva handing him a lotus flower—a symbol of purity in Buddhism. The pagoda's design ...

The Reverend Gyoro Nagase has been based at the London Peace pagoda since it opened in 1985. Having now spent more time in the capital than his native Japan, the 72-year-old says "London is very ...