A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is unveiled at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage in Daejeon, central South Korea, on Jan. 24, 2025, during a ceremony to send it ...

A former chief priest of a temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, from which a Buddha statue was stolen and taken to South ...

The statue of the Kanzeon Bodhisattva was stolen from the Japanese temple in 2012 by South Korean burglars. The thieves were arrested the following year and the statue was confiscated by the South ...

This Bodhisattva belongs to the corpus of Buddhist schist statues from the ancient territory of Gandhara, which lay north of the Indus and south of Pamirs. This region, also known as the ...

However, Buseok Temple asserted ownership of the seated Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva statue, citing a written record inside the statue stating it had been crafted at Buseok Temple in Seoju (modern ...

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 Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled ... The Gilt-bronze Seated Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was taken from Kannonji, a temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki prefecture, in ...

Notable exhibits at the exhibition in Nara will include a statuette of Bodhisattva in Pensive Pose from Chuguji temple; a standing statue of Kannon Bodhisattva (Kudara Kannon) from Horyuji temple ...

People can visit and see the Gilt-bronze Seated Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, a 50.5-centimeter-tall Buddhist statue from the 918-1392 Goryeo Dynasty, from Saturday until Buddha's Birthday that ...