CHENGDU－The world's largest stone Buddha statue, the Giant Buddha of Leshan, needs repairs, again. Less than three years after the completion of the latest large-scale face-lift－the seventh in over a ...

Today, in Cave 17, a painted statue of Hongbian, chief of monks and a politically influential figure when the cave was built in the mid-9th century, said to be the owner of the cave, sits on a bed of ...