HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero ... meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200.

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make a temporary return to its original home. The 14th-century Korean ...

DAEJEON, South Korea — A Buddha statue stolen ... which was keeping the statue, to receive it 13 years after it was stolen. The statue will be temporarily lent to Buseoksa Temple, a South Korean ...

The nine Korean smugglers who took the statue out of Japan also stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in ...

From Asia to Europe, Africa, US and Canada, a food writer toured the kitchens of Buddhist and Catholic monasteries, a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has been featured in some newly-viral Buddha-like Trump statues. The creator, a man from Xiamen in China, is making bank. Xiamen, China - Artist Hong Jinshi has gone viral ...

Sekko Tanaka worships the Buddha statue, which was stolen from Kannonji temple in Japan, at Buseoksa Temple in South Korea on Jan. 24. The Yomiuri Shimbun 2:00 JST, February 1, 2025 TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki ...

Once known as Japan’s political centre, this coastal town in Kanagawa Prefecture, less than an hour south of Tokyo is oozing with tradition and cultural treasures. Kamakura is famous for its Great ...

In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Buseok Temple in Seosan, 98 kilometers southwest of Seoul, to return the 50.5-centimeter-tall statue, stolen by South Koreans from the Japanese temple.

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a statue of Buddha was once the tallest in the world, holding that record for 15 years. Inside the statue there is an elevator that takes visitors up 85 meters to an observation deck, where they can ...

Hong initially conceived the Trump-Buddha statues in 2021 as a humorous project, inspired by one of Trump’s Chinese nicknames, “King of Knowing Everything.” The juxtaposition of Trump’s signature ...