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 Laughing Buddha’s transformation into a global icon results from both the fascination with Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Europe and the 20th-century spread of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

Taliban Information Minister Quadratullah Jamal announced that, in apparent defiance of international condemnation and pleas to preserve the world's tallest standing Buddha statue and other ...

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.

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.

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.

Mariusz Gwiazda, director of the Polish side of the mission, pointed out that the 71-centimetre-high statue depicts the Buddha standing and holding part of his clothing in his left hand.

Buddha Statue Called Guide, Not Idol Destruction of Artifacts in Afghanistan Raises Outcry Around the World March 16, 2001 More than 24 years ago Summary By Paul Moses ...

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.

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.