• the Buddhist Pantheon (personage pictured) incorporates more than 3,000 Buddhas and deities?
• the Wat Phra Kaew, a Buddhist temple (temple complex pictured) in Bangkok, Thailand, has an idol of Emerald Buddha with a legend linked to India, five centuries after Buddha attained Nirvana?
• the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka?
• for hundreds of years the Buddha was represented by symbols such as his footprint before images like the Seated Buddha from Gandhara (pictured) were carved in Pakistan?
• an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha?
• a casket discovered by Anant Sadashiv Altekar near Vaishali, on display at the Patna Museum, is said to contain the remains of the Buddha?
• a hole was made in 1997 in the belly of the Mahamuni Buddha statue (pictured) at the Mahamuni Buddha Temple in Mandalay, Myanmar, aiming to steal embedded jewels thought to be inside?
• Kaundinya, the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha, was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha's Buddhahood?

Facts on topics related to Buddha

Gautama Buddha

• Sariputra, one the two chief disciples of Gautama Buddha, is frequently featured in the Jatakas alongside Mahamoggallana and the Buddha in their past lives?
• Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha (pictured) outside of Myanmar?
• Prince Vijaya, the founder of the Kingdom of Tambapanni, landed at Tambapanni on the day of the death of Gautama Buddha?
• Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?
• Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
• Bhadda Kapilani, the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations, was the former wife of Mahakasyapa, who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana?
• Kaundinya, the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha, was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha's Buddhahood?
• Kosambi, a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha, was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna?
• Nagarjunakonda, a historic Buddhist town in Andhra Pradesh believed to hold some relics of Gautama Buddha was submerged by the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, the tallest masonry dam in the world?
• Nanda, the half-sister of Gautama Buddha, went on to be the foremost nun in the practice of jhana?

Pratyekabuddha

• Lingyan Temple in Shandong, China features a nine-storey Song Dynasty pagoda, named the Pizhi Pagoda (pictured) from the Sanskrit word pratyeka?