scmp.com

In Kit Fan’s Diamond Hill, Buddha is an addict and the future is uncertain

If you have been to Diamond Hill, in east Kowloon, the chances are it was to visit the Chi Lin Nunnery. That Buddhist temple, rebuilt in the 1990s in Tang-dynasty style, is the district’s star ...
VietNamNet

Diamond-encrusted, jade Buddha statues unveiled

VietNamNet Bridge - The Sung Duc Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc district has just unveiled four largest jade Buddha statues ever been made in Vietnam. VietNamNet Bridge - The Sung Duc Pagoda in ...
insider.si.edu

Precious treasures from the Diamond Throne finds from the site of the Buddha's enlightenment edited by Sam van Schaik, Daniela De Simone, Gergely Hidas, and Michael Willis

1. The Mahabodhi Temple Before its Restoration / J.P. Losty -- 2. The Asana: Where the Buddha Sat / Daniela De Simone; Dániel Balogh; Sven Bretfeld -- 3. Pīṭhīpati Puzzles: Custodians of the Diamond ...
The Telegraph

ASI expert claims discovery of two lost vajrasanas in Bodhgaya

Different emperors and kings had down the centuries installed three so-called diamond thrones or enlightenment thrones under the famous Bodhi (peepal) tree The Kushana-period vajrasana, as claimed by ...