A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make ...

Japanese temple to retake 14th century relic in May after prolonged legal fight A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s ...

SEOUL — A South Korean temple has reiterated its agreement to return a stolen Buddhist statue to its rightful owner, a Japanese temple, under the condition that a ritual be held in South Korea ...

Kyoto has about 2,700 temples where an array of benevolent, meek and ferocious Buddhist statues are worshipped. Sculptors breathe life into these objects of worship.

By the seventh and eight centuries, however, Korean Buddhist sculpture had matured both conceptually and stylistically ... but also a way of asserting political power and of subsuming the society ...

South Korea’s supreme court rejected a South Korean temple’s claim to a disputed Buddhist statue, which was stolen from a Japanese temple more than a decade ago. In the ruling on Oct.

Located within Gayasan National Park, the temple, which was built in 802 AD, is regarded as one of Korea’s three major Buddhist temples along with Tongdosa and Songgwangsa. The site holds great ...

For many travelers, no other place in South Korea exemplifies all of these ... visitors can see 64 ancient pagodas, over 50 Buddhist statues, and 122 temple ruins that harken back to the city's ...