Centuries-old Buddhist temple destroyed in ‘unprecedented’ and deadly South Korea wildfires
South Korea redeployed firefighting helicopters after a fatal crash caused a temporary grounding on Wednesday as authorities ...
Giant statue of ancient Buddhist monk in southwest Japan cleansed ahead of spring festival
One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...
Huge South Korea wildfires kill 27 and threaten to destroy ancient temples
The fires are posing a massive threat to cultural sites. In the city of Uiseong, the fire destroyed the Gounsa temple, one of ...
South Korea's centuries-old Gounsa temple is left in ruins by unprecedented wildfires
Uprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea's southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist ...
Workers save Buddha as S. Korea's wildfires raze ancient temple
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...