On Monday they carried rope and buckets of water up ladders to the very top of the Buddha, which is three times as tall as the Statue of Liberty without its plinth. They then descended through the ...
One of the major smugglers was Japanese art dealer Sadajiro Yamanaka ... The prized item for sellers and collectors was the Buddha head, but the statue's other parts were sometimes sold separately ...
26, 2023, in Seoul. (Mainichi/Hirohiko Sakaguchi) SEOUL (Mainichi) -- A temple in South Korea that claimed ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from Japan will not oppose returning it, a source ...
The stones once belonged to a seven-headed serpent-like statue found with a Buddha in the temple. Screengrab from Apsara National Authority's Facebook page What are we learning about the past?