Everywhere is ebay, amazon, youtube, wikipedia...

First off, "Buddha sculptures" only gets 62 exact searches a day. It kind sucks for a niche. This list is straight out of Market Samurai:



Let's take a look at the chart and see what the first page of Google looks like:



Eh...this is the SERPs from the U.S. - I wouldn't tackle this one, a coulple of red results which would make me wary.

But guess what...."buddha figurines" gets 79 exact searches, more than your original keyword:



Almost no red results. I know I could be on the first page with buddhafigurines.org. (which is available) Gets some backlinks are you'll be near the top. i bet you could rank with a web 2.0 property if you optimized it perfectly.

Get Market Samurai. Learn it. Use it.

it is dead simple to overtake them all.Some of them would even have a pr4 or pr5.But never worry,by getting links from unique c-class aged sites,you will surely overtake them.You need not even get a pr4 or pr 5.Do not get intimidated by these sites.They wil always be there;it is us who have to kick them out of the top serp positions.