In Dazu County, some 165 kilometers away from Chongqing, are more than 40 sites of stone carvings with over 50,000 statues of Buddha completed from the late Tang Dynasty (618-907) to the Song ...

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues ... any further destruction. The stone also resonates with the military that has ruled Myanmar for much of its history since ...