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An ancient 250-pound statue of a young Buddha was stolen from an L.A. gallery. On Saturday night, police found it in the bed of a truck with no license plate.
At the lecture, titled Beyond Boundaries, historian Romila Thapar revealed that the pepper tree travelled from India’s west ...
A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of a Buddha statue worth $1.5 million, Los Angeles police said Wednesday. The statue was recovered from a truck on Saturday and 44-year-old ...
The statue in question depicts Monju Bosatsu, a great Bodhisattva personifying wisdom. Bodhisattvas are those on the path to becoming a Buddha. Monju—known as Mañjuśrī, Mãnjughoṣa and ...
The $1.5 million statue was snatched from the Barakat Gallery. KTLA 5 Hundreds of other valuable pieces were skipped over in favor of the Buddha — the only item that was stolen. Baraka told KTLA ...
A 2,000-year-old Greek statue. : Greek Police According to the authorities, the statue is from the Hellenistic period, which covers between 323 B.C. and 30 B.C.
Here’s how it works. This 1,900-year-old statue of the Buddha is 28 inches (71 centimeters) tall and was found at Berenike, an ancient port city in Egypt by the Red Sea.
A statue of Buddha stands at the ancient Borobudur temple in Magelang, Indonesia. Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, that, according to its inscription, contained the ...