In Korea the birthday of Buddha is celebrated according to the lunar calendar ... participants holding funeral streamers bearing messages for victims of the capsized passenger ship Sewol, marched to ...

Families decorate their homes with lanterns and gather for feasts. Buddha’s Birthday is a national holiday in South Korea. The highlight of the celebration in Seoul is the Lotus Lantern Festival ...

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

A 14th-century bronze Buddha statue from Korea’s Goryeo-era, stolen by a South Korean theft ring from Kannon Temple on ...

Sekko Tanaka worships the Buddha statue, which was stolen from Kannonji temple in Japan, at Buseoksa Temple in South Korea on Jan 24, 2025. - Photo courtesy of the Board of Education in Tsushima ...

The performance brought cheers from a crowd of thousands at an annual lantern-lighting festival over the weekend to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday. Religious belief in South Korea has been on ...

Daejeon, South Korea, Jan. 24 (Jiji Press)--A ceremony to return a stolen Buddha statue to a Japanese temple on Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, was held in the central South Korea city of ...

For many travelers, no other place in South Korea exemplifies all of these things ... Seokguram, the nearby man-made grotto, houses a statue of Buddha as well as representations of Buddhist ...

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Sales of 'The Words of the Translated Buddha,' mentioned by Jang Won-young, a member of the popular girl group IVE, are surging and are closely following 'The Boy Comes,' a novel by Han Kang ...