Over the past seven years, the women have worked on more than 70 wooden Buddha statues throughout Japan. Examples of Sanjoudou's restoration work The restoration process is labor-intensive and ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

However, as Buddhism spread to the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 220 A.D.), existing multistory wooden ... of the Buddha and bodhisattvas. The first floor houses a Sakyamuni Buddha statue, while ...

Uncover the timeless beauty of But Thap Pagoda, home to Vietnam’s finest wooden sculptures and centuries-old artifacts.

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero ... 67 years to go on public display in July. It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha ... statue’s torso was crafted with a robe and sash, carved ...