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What Archaeologists Are Uncovering About the Buddha in His Legendary Nepali Hometown
Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...
The Star6d
After 20 years, this Malaysian returned to China’s sacred mountains for a spiritual retreat
The next day, we went to Fenghua to visit the biggest copper statue of the Maitreya Buddha at Xuedou Mountain (the fifth sacred mountain in China ... for the various shrine halls.
China Daily Global Edition1d
Buddha's gaze into eternity
Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...
Xinhua3d
GLOBALink | 1,700-year-old Buddha statue in China receives 1st restoration since 1445
A 22.29-meter-tall cliffside Buddha statue in Hebi City has started a three-year restoration. Dating back over 1,700 years, it's China's earliest and northern China's largest cliffside Buddha. The ...
NDTV2d
Temple Burned, UNESCO Site Evacuated As South Korea Wildfires Spread
Workers at the Gounsa Temple tried to move valuable artefacts and cover up Buddhist statues. A historic Buddhist temple burned to the ground and a UNESCO-listed village was ordered to evacuate as ...
Tuoi Tre News4d
Cherry blossoms start blooming in Tokyo
Tokyo, March 24 (Jiji Press) -- Cherry blossoms have started blooming in Tokyo this season, the Japan Meteorological Agency ...
The perfect two-week holiday in the world’s cheapest country
Rugged, remote and relatively unspoilt, Laos is the last uncut diamond of South-East Asia – rough around the edges, yet ...
Independent News2d
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 ...