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Around 30 km from Bangalore, nestled amidst rocky hills and lush green valleys, sits the slate gray Maitreya Buddha Pyramid, built solely for meditation. It is 102-ft high, has a base area of 160 feet ...

On Sept 9, AD 690 the south gate tower of the royal palace in Luoyang had witnessed an unprecedented historic event, as Wu Zetian announced the change of dynasty from Tang to Zhou and became China's ...

Buddha Maitreya enjoys high popularity among Buddhists in China. He is regarded as a Buddha of the Future to succeed Shakyamuni, living in the palace of Tuṣita. Maitreya is typically pictured as ...

As the world celebrates the 2565th Buddha Jayanti, China is seemingly fighting an intense theological battle over Maitreya Buddha who is yet to descend on earth. The myth of Maitreya is as old as the ...

Kasya (Kushinagar) The Maitreya Buddha of Kushinagar will not be the world's tallest statue, about 500 feet tall as it was meant to be when the project was announced in 2001. The main Buddhist temple ...

Bombarded with one negative news story after another, many people feel a pervasive pessimism close at hand. Fear and mistrust, uncertainty, are some of the results. Debilitating conditions, which sap ...

Carved into a cliff across the river from the temple Ōnodera in Nara Prefecture stands the largest rock carving of Buddha in Japan. Since the beginning of the thirteenth century, this remarkable image ...

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