It speaks for itself as a destination: monkey-strewn, Buddhist temple–dotted, white sand–studded islands and the dreamiest water around. Plus, spring is a perfect time ... the free-form swimming pool ...

The 1,300-year-old Gounsa temple in Uiseong County, a major Buddhist landmark ... Unusually warm spring temperatures in South Korea dried out the landscape and, combined with strong winds ...

Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, someone grabbed the fire extinguisher at Sung Tak Buddhist Temple on Pike Street, and whacked the large statue gracing the front, then smashed a smaller statue to pieces.

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist ... at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified March 26 prior to an upcoming spring festival.

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 ...

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...