The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) stated that the Buddha’s attributes, including the position of the hands, confirmed to scholars what tradition he belonged to. “They also deepened the ...

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 ...

excerpt from the Amitābha Sutra With its eyes closed in eternal prayer, a 1.7-meter-tall statue of a Buddha was unearthed by the Korean Archaeology Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences and ...

Both were built during the Joseon dynasty, the last on the Korean Peninsula and were given ... move the temple's third “treasure,” a stone Buddha statue reportedly built in the 8th century ...

Participants, some dressed in traditional Korean Hanbok clothing ... The lanterns can be in the shape of Buddha sculptures, dragons, elephants, lotus flowers and phoenixes, lighting up the ...

Buseoksa Temple in Seosan, South Korea, shows the seated Buddha statue on May 10, 2025, before its return to Japan's Kannonji temple. (Kyodo) SEOSAN, South Korea (Kyodo) -- A South Korean temple ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it over to the Japanese owner on Saturday. While the statue, taken by South ...