A South Korean high court on Feb. 1 ruled that a centuries-old Buddhist statue belongs to the Japanese temple that it was stolen from about 10 years ago and should be returned, overturning a lower ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan on May 10 after Korea’s Supreme Court ruled it should be ...

Note: Kobo Daishi is the posthumous name of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835).

A consortium of 10 Buddhist temples in northern Kyoto Prefecture, together with a nonprofit organization, launched a website ...

which is the principal image of the temple, Nikko Bosatsu and Gakko Bosatsu are enshrined there. These statues have been designated as an Important Cultural Property together with Yakushi Sanzonzo ...

Omachi City in Nagano Prefecture reported damage from the magnitude 5 earthquake that hit the northern part of the ...

Some of the temple buildings have been designated as National Treasures, including the Miei-do Hall that enshrines the statue of Honen Shonin as the principal image, Amida-do Hall that enshrines the ...

the temple’s former chief steward, spoke with robot scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro, who is a professor at Osaka University. Goto asked Ishiguro to “create a Buddhist statue via robotics,” to ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Egyptologists had long assumed that all that remained of the temple complex were the imposing Colossi of Memnon, two seated statues of Amenhotep ... Spanish and Japanese researchers—and as ...