In Korea, despite the country not having a state religion, Buddha’s Birthday is observed as a public holiday. But how did the day attain its designation?

Celebrating Buddha's birthday, a South Korean DJ is in spotlight By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim May 13, 20242:34 AM PDTUpdated May 13, 2024 ...

An ancient Buddha statue measuring 1.7 meters in height was unearthed at an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Pyongan Province, North Korea, according to Popular Mechanics.

At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...

The seated Buddha statue, a Nagasaki Prefecture-designated cultural asset, was stolen from the Kannonji temple in the island city of Tsushima by a Korean theft ring in October 2012 and brought to ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers at the Korean Archaeology Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences ...

At an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Phyongan Province, North Korea, researchers unearthed a monumental sculpture of the Buddha Amitābha, which translates to Buddha of Boundless Light ...