Famous Buddhist Temples: Buddhism, one of the world’s major religions, has captivated millions of followers with its teachings centered around attaining enlightenment and escaping suffering.

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--The hollowed out head of an ancient Buddhist statue kept at the Myooin temple here revealed sheet after sheet of “washi” traditional paper adorned with images ...

One of the city's most popular attractions, the Jade Buddha Temple impresses visitors with its legion of statues. The temple was originally built to house two jade statues brought in from Burma.

A Buddhist statue of the ... 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 women first met in 2015 at the World Heritage site Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture, where they were helping to restore 7.5-meter-tall Buddha statues at Nikko Rinnoji Temple. After the two-year ...

Apart from the gold statue (housed on the top floor), the temple houses a Chinatown museum known as Yaowarat Chinatown Heritage Center or Wat Traimit Museum (second floor) and a Gold Buddha statue ...

The Temple of the ... its gold-plated "Reclining Buddha" sculpture. The Buddha measures 151 feet long and is 50 meters tall, making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand.

NARA--CT scans revealed a miniature Monju-bosatsu-kishizo statue ... Buddha altar and a drawstring bag.” Yamaguchi speculated that people mourning Jishin’s death just before the temple was ...