which houses the second jade buddha statue, carved from a single piece of white jade. It's also worth noting that the temple is one of Shanghai's few active Buddhist monasteries, so many monks ...
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
The Buddhist Gounsa Temple complex in Uiseong County, parts of which date back as much as 1,300 years, is among the properties that have burned, according to Korea JoongAng Daily. The complex ...
A centuries-old Buddhist temple has been destroyed as South Korea struggles to contain ‘unprecedented’ wildfires ravaging the country’s southeast that have killed at least 18 people.The ...
Lewis Hamilton has claimed his first victory as a Ferrari driver, the Briton taking the Sprint win at the Chinese Grand Prix weekend. Hamilton took the chequered flag in the 19-lap race ahead of ...
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...