Princeton's New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center features the largest outdoor Buddha statute in the Western Hemisphere, according to officials in Franklin Township, where it sits.

A helicopter flies past the world’s largest outdoor buddha, the 112-foot high Tian Tan Buddha (Temple of Heaven) statue at Po Lin Monastery on a Hong Kong island. More than 10,000 people ...

(RNS) — Bhante Sujatha, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk leading a temple in Woodstock, Illinois, hopes a new outdoor, interfaith meditation space will be a sanctuary in a world of noise. WOODSTOCK ...

The third level includes Thien Lam Tu (Meditation Forest Temple) and the Buddhist relic area, adorned with sculptural works and large statues - most notably, the outdoor statue of the Enlightened ...

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