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The Sugar Land Quan Âm is a cast concrete statue in Chùa Việt Nam (English: Vietnamese Buddhist Center) in Sugar Land, Texas, just outside of Houston. The sculpture depicts the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in female form standing on a lotus pedestal. She may also be commonly known by her Chinese name Guanyin.
The Goddess of Democracy, also known as the Goddess of Democracy and Freedom, the Spirit of Democracy, [1] and the Goddess of Liberty (自由女神; zìyóu nǚshén [1]), was a 10-metre-tall (33 ft) statue created during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The statue was constructed over four days out of foam and papier-mâché over a metal ...
Native Chinese religions do not usually use cult images of deities, or even represent them, and large religious sculpture is nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century. One of the earliest Buddhist sculpture in China is a gilt-bronze seated Buddha with flame shoulders from the 3rd century, which displays influence from ...
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A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander has been beheaded at the University of Houston. ‘Show the violated work’: Artist requests beheaded sculpture remains on ...
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(The Center Square) – Texas Department of Public Safety officers working through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to apprehend “Special Interest ...
Statue of Albert Sidney Johnston (University of Texas at Austin) Statue of Barbara Jordan (Austin–Bergstrom International Airport) Statue of Barbara Jordan (University of Texas at Austin) Statue of Cesar Chavez, University of Texas at Austin; Statue of George Washington; Statue of Jefferson Davis, formerly installed on the University of Texas ...