A 15th-century monastery in Tibet is ... to be the future incarnation of Buddha returned to save all on earth. The 85-foot-tall statue is coated in gold and required more than 900 artisans roughly ...

It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

Founded in early 15th century, Namgyal Tsemo monastery in Leh in Ladakh is renowned for its three-storey high solid gold idol of Maitrieya Buddha. Situated on a mountain top behind the Leh palace ...