It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

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 ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that ... stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in Korea and no one in ...

NARA--Nara's fabulous Todaiji temple, home to one of the world's largest Buddha statues, is suspending entry to the Great Buddha Hall while the new coronavirus rages. But the temple, a UNESCO ...

Sekko Tanaka worships the Buddha statue, which was stolen from Kannonji temple in Japan, at Buseoksa Temple in South Korea on Jan 24, 2025. - Photo courtesy of the Board of Education in Tsushima ...