A 14th-century bronze Buddha statue from Korea’s Goryeo-era, stolen by a South Korean theft ring from Kannon Temple on Japan’s Tsushima Island in 2012, will officially be returned to the ...

A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva ... it back to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ...

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...

Imura and Morisaki promptly agreed. Naka Ai carves a replacement halo for a Buddha statue. They called their venture Sanjoudou, which in Japanese means "combining the power of three" and based ...

Returning from a Japanese funeral ... It’s genuinely gargantuan--one of the tallest Buddha statues in the world, seemingly soaring to the heavens with a height of 120 meters.

Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding ... sitting outside ever since. Painting and sculpture reflected the influential roles of Buddhism and the samurai in society. Illustrated ...

A former chief priest of a temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, from which a Buddha statue was stolen and taken to South ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his way over the grass. His name is the Reverend Gyoro Nagase, and he knows these gilded Buddhas very well.

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 ...