NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

The statue reportedly dates back to Japan’s Edo Period (1603–1867 ... those pieces were ignored in favor of the Buddha statue, the only item targeted during the heist, which lasted a total ...

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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 ...

USHIKU: Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up Monday (Sept 9 ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

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 ...

when Nara was Japan's capital city, as a commission by Emperor Shōmu to unify Buddhism in the country. It took three years to cast the giant bronze statue of Buddha. The enormous hall that houses ...

The Orange County Buddhist Church hosted a community celebration of Japanese culture and the birth of the historical Buddha ...