News

A Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago is returned from South Korea
A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a ...
Buddhist statue stolen nearly 13 years ago returns to Japan from South Korea
Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple more than 12 years ago returned home on Monday following years-long ...
The Korea Herald3mon
Korea’s ‘stolen’ Buddha statue to be returned to Japan
A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ... it and alerted Buseoksa, the Korean temple believed to be its real owner in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province.
Nippon3d
Stolen Buddha Statue Handed Over to Japan in South Korea
in 2012 was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple in Seosan, central South Korea, on Saturday, people familiar with the matter said. The Kanzeon Bodhisattva statue, designated as a tangible ...
Times Union1mon
South Korea's centuries-old Gounsa temple is left in ruins by unprecedented wildfires
SEOUL, South Korea (AP ... in charge of the temple. He said that monks and Buddhist faithful managed to move the temple's third “treasure,” a stone Buddha statue reportedly built in ...