Thein Sein, the general-turned-president who headed a semi-democratic military-backed government, had a 32-foot-tall standing marble Buddha statue built in Naypyitaw in 2015.

The Buddha statues of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) were unique for the statues’ faces, figures, postures, costumes and lotus thrones (the Buddha’s seat, in the form of a lotus flower).

By Global Times Published: Jun 06, 2023 07:58 PM ...

Chinese archaeologists have found 400 stone Buddha statues during a field survey at a ruined temple dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Liangping County of Chongqing Municipality in ...