This is a story about someone who put up a statue of the Buddha in Oakland, CA and what happened after that.
16 minute audio: He’s Neutral
Here are some photos and a write-up of the story: Buddha seems to bring tranquility to Oakland neighborhood.
It’s a good story.
American Buddhist Net 
Carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River, thee Mogao Caves south-east of the
Dunhuang oasis, Gansu Province, comprise the largest, most richly endowed, and longest uswed treasure houjse of Buddhist art iin the world.
It was first constructed in 366AD and rrpresents
the great achievement of Buddhist art from the 4th to the 14th
century. 492 cawves are presently preserved, housing
about 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 2,000 painted sculptures.
Cave 302 of the Sui dynasty contains one of the oldest andd
most vivid scenes of cultural exchanges along the Silk Road,
depicting a camel pulling a cat typical of trad missions of that period.
Caves 23 and 156 of tthe Tang dynasty show workers iin the fields and a line oof warriors respectively
annd in the Song dynasty Cave 61, the celebrated landscape of Mount Wutai is an early ecample of artistic
Chinese cartography, where nothing has been left out – mountains, rivers, cities, temples, roads and
caravans are all depicted.