South Korea and Japan’s ties have a complicated history but a dispute over a 14th-century Buddhist statue only added to the ...

Just two months after a 14th-century Korean Buddhist statue, previously stolen from a Japanese temple and brought to Korea, ...

Souls trembling before judgment, a boiling cauldron and a chance at redemption through a blooming lotus — these striking ...

After decades missing, Buddha statue to return to Hiroshima By TABITO FUKUTOMI/ Staff Writer April 22, 2022 at 07:00 JST ...

This statue bears a resemblance to other Buddhist elephant statues found in the region, with its closest sibling residing 19 kilometers upstream in Dhauli.

In March 2015, a news report about a Buddhist statue on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest caused a big stir in China. After seeing the statue, people from a village in East ...

Before leaving, he even knelt and bowed in front of the Buddha statue. Following his arrest and interrogation, the suspect confessed to stealing over 30,000 yuan ($4,208) from temples across three ...