A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan on May 10 after Korea ... the relic following a 100-day ceremony through Buddha’s Birthday on May 5 that included public viewing ...

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.

the museum's chief researcher who specializes in the history of sculptures in Japan, headed the research. He noted it was possible the miniature Buddha was a “nenjibutsu,” or small statue of ...

The infant she holds is said to be 15 meters long, the same height as the famous Great Buddha statue at ... Now, the statue poses a safety problem. Japan's building code requires structures ...