Letters from readers: Big Buddha and Guangzhou adventures, fun facts about the sun
I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Big Buddha sculpture on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Standing at 34 metres tall, ...
Hong Kong painter draws inspiration from city’s recent history in works at Art Basel
At Hong Kong’s Art Basel, painter Chow Chun-fai’s new works transport viewers back to the night in 1997 when the former ...
Giant statue of ancient Buddhist monk in southwest Japan cleansed ahead of spring festival
One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...
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Buddha's gaze into eternity
Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...