Mindar folds his hands to pray in Kyoto, Japan. Kodaiji Temple “The design policy for Mindar was about encouraging people’s imagination. Buddha’s statue has a similar design: it’s ...

which is ji or tera in Japanese. While you’ll likely find that temples are quite a common sight, not every temple has a Buddha statue with a hand the size of your body. These large, divine statues are ...

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 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 ...

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 from a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple in Seosan, central South Korea, on Saturday ...

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and ... a South Korean temple claimed ownership of the seated statue, insisting that it had been looted by "wako" Japanese pirates in the 14th century.

The kanji character dai is shared in the Japanese for the Great Buddha statue, daibutsu. They are huge. Japanese original The easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun ...