Thammakorn Wangpreecha, 68, a monk in Thailand, chopped off his own head using a guillotine as an offering to Buddha in the hope he would be reincarnated as a 'higher spiritual being'.

After the vandalism, Dieterle raised more than $3,700 through a GoFundMe page to repair the 300-pound head and install security features to deter future incidents. “The power of the kindness of ...

After two decades overseas, a stolen 1,500-year-old Buddha head returned home on Friday. The 47-cm Buddha head belonged to a statue in a pagoda at Youju Temple in Hebei province.

The renowned Angkor site has yielded a striking discovery. Archaeologists discovered a torso that unexpectedly matched an iconic Buddha head that had been unearthed more than a century ago ...

A large head detached from a Buddha image and believed to be over 300 years old has been unearthed from a pond inside a temple in Suphan Buri's Si Prachan district.

Furthermore, scans and analysis of a Buddha head originally found in 1927 and currently housed at the Angkor Conservation also proved to be from the same statue. The figure is notably adorned with ...

Apart from Buddha head and coins, terracotta artifacts including pottery were also found during digging on December 13. Published: December 18, 2020 10:29 AM IST By IANS ...