It is also the site of the world's largest stone statue of Buddha ... from 713 to 803 during the Tang Dynasty. A monk called Hai Tong from Lingyun Temple is said to have sponsored the construction ...

In 2015, a C.T. scan revealed the mummified remains of a monk inside a thousand-year-old Buddha statue. Researchers brought the statue from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands to the Meander ...

A sculpture of a monk has been unveiled at an abbey to mark a saint's day. The steel monk has been placed in the crypt in the abbey ruins in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, where the shrine of St ...

The wooden statue of the Abingdon monk has been situated on the Marcham roundabout for more than 20 years. Mayor Andy Foulsham said the well-known landmark was originally erected as part of a ...