Hong initially conceived the Trump-Buddha statues in 2021 as a humorous project, inspired by one of Trump’s Chinese nicknames, “King of Knowing Everything.” The juxtaposition of Trump’s signature ...
Along with the famous reclining Buddha, Wat Pho features a whopping 394 Buddhas that can be found spread out between four different chapels on-site. In between all of the opulent statues ...
The nine Korean smugglers who took the statue out of Japan also stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in ...
Cross-legged with his eyes half-closed in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version ... who originally designed the statues as a joke. “Politicians are normally so boring, while (Trump ...