Known as Dharma Chakra Buddha, the Teaching Buddha statue is in a sitting or standing position. The most popular is the sitting pose since this is the position the Buddha assumed when teaching.

The Laykyun Setkyar, a standing Buddha statue on a 44 ft (13.5 m) throne, Khatakan Taung, Myanmar. Built by Chief Abbot Ven. Nãradã, constructed between 1996 and 2008.

One of the oldest statues of Buddha created in Japan, currently in the Nara National Museum, portrays the moment of his birth.

Thein Sein, the general-turned-president who headed a semi-democratic military-backed government, had a 9.7-meter-tall (32-foot-tall) standing marble Buddha statue built in Naypyitaw in 2015.

Statues stand as symbols of heritage, religious devotion, and historical memory. One can find a lot of statues around the ...

Later that year U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government, and work has begun to restore the biggest of the two destroyed statues, once the tallest standing Buddha in the world.

Later that year U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government, and work has begun to restore the biggest of the two destroyed statues, once the tallest standing Buddha in the world.

**FILE** The 53-meter (175-foot) tall, 2000-year-old Buddha statue located in Bamyan, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of the Afghan capital of Kabul, is shown in this undated file photo.

Archaeologists in Thailand uncovered 33 ancient gold, silver, and bronze treasures beneath a 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha statue. They found rare repoussé metal sheets depicting Buddha and ...

The standing Buddha statues are on polished wood bases. Police are investigating a sighting of a white Ford Falcon parked on a dirt track near the house days earlier.

A Buddha head and standing Buddha similar to these were stolen from a Te Puke house earlier this month. Stolen garden ornaments have got Te Puke’s Mike Graveson issuing a warning to others with ...