A 20-meter-tall reinforced concrete statue of Maitreya Buddha at Vinh Trang Pagoda (Tien Giang Province) was named among the world’s most impressive giant Buddha statues by the UK-based Wanderlust ...

Jiji SHARE/SAVE May 12, 2025 Tsushima, Nagasaki Pref. – A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday.

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 ...

Andong, South Korea - 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 ...

The homeless menace accused of vandalizing six Manhattan Buddhist and Taoist temples – including hurling a Buddha statue out the window – was cut loose in court Wednesday night thanks to ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago ...

The torso, believed to be from the 12th or 13th century, was discovered during a dig by a team of Cambodian and Indian experts last month at Angkor’s Ta Prohm temple. It was found along with 29 ...

This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by archaeologists at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia's Siem Reap province. According to ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago ...

The statue’s presumed head was discovered at the same temple in 1927 during the French colonial era, and is currently kept at Cambodia’s main National Museum in the capital Phnom Penh.

The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology officials announced ...