A 73-meter Kannon statue overlooks the hot-spring resort city of Kaga in Ishikawa Prefecture. The reinforced concrete structure, named Kaga Dai-Kannon, was built in 1987 by a local real estate ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

Oyamatsu named his statue the “St. Mary Kannon of Hara Castle.” The name contains reference to Maria Kannon, or images of Virgin Mary in the guise of the Kannon deity of Buddhism, which hidden ...

There are more than 20,000 large and small Buddhist and Christian stone markers and unmarked graves of war dead, as well as a giant statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy in Japanese Buddhism ...

A 14th-century bronze Buddha statue from Korea’s Goryeo-era, stolen by a South Korean theft ring from Kannon Temple on Japan’s Tsushima Island in 2012, will officially be returned to the ...

Setsuryo Tanaka, chief priest of Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in ... during a ceremony to send back a Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva to the Japanese temple.

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make a temporary return to its original home. The 14th-century Korean ...

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced, thousand-armed Kannon Bodhisattva - also called the Kannon of the Eyes - as praying to the statue is believed to be effective in curing eye ...